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ADEL 2017 Cohort - Blair Glencorse

December 16, 2022
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Blair Glencorse, Executive Director, Accountability Lab (UK)

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Blair Glencorse
Executive Director, Accountability Lab; Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader (ADEL)
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Rim Berahab
Senior Economist
Rim Berahab is Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South, which she joined in 2014. She is currently working on themes related to energy issues and their impacts on economic growth and long-term development. Her research areas also cover trade and regional integration challenges in Africa. Previously, she has also worked on questions related to gender inequalities in the labor market of North African countries. Rim spent three months at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2016, in the Commodities Unit of the Research Department. She holds a State Engineering degree from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA). ...

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