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Tarik Yousef el-Magariaf is the chief executive of Silatech, a social initiative for youth employment and entrepreneurship in the Arab world, and a leading authority on the economies of the Arab world. Prior to joining Silatech in 2011, between 2006 and 2010 he served as the second dean of the Dubai School of Government (DSG), a graduate school of public policy and international affairs established in cooperation with the John F. Kennedy School of Government. With only nine faculty members, the four most senior members quit in late-2010, bringing Yousef's single term as Dean to an end. DSG lost its academic accreditation and its Harvard affiliation. During this period and up till present, Yousef has served as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he co-founded with James Wolfensohn the Middle East Youth Initiative, an applied research and policy program designed to benefit young Arabs in the areas of employment, education, housing and entrepreneurship. Between 1998 and 2006, Yousef worked at Georgetown University, where he was Assistant Professor of Economics in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and Sheikh Al Salem Al Sabah Professor of Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He has worked in the past at the Middle East and Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund, as a Senior Advisor at the Millennium Project with the United Nations, and at the Office of the Chief Economist in Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank. He is the son of Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Libya's former ambassador to India and the Secretary General of the 1980s group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Yousef received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and his B.S. from the University of Oregon in Economics. The research and policy work for which he is widely recognized includes the challenge of youth economic inclusion, the political economy of policy reform, the dynamics of transitions to democracy, and development policies in oil-exporting countries. He was a participant in the second edition of Dubai Debates, on the topic After the Arab Awakening: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Arab World. 〔(Dubai Debates 2 speakers )〕 == Bibliography == *(The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007 ) *(Navtej Dhillon & Tarik Yousef, “Inclusion: Meeting the 100 Million Youth Challenge,” Middle East Youth Initiative, 2007 ) *(Navtej Dhillon & Tarik Yousef, Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East, Brookings Institution, 2009 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarik Yousef」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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