Ishac Diwan currently teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and recently held teaching positions at Columbia University, School for International Public Affairs, and at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the chief economist of the Finance for Development Lab. His recent (co-authored) books include A Political Economy of the Middle East (Westview Press 2015); and Crony Capitalism in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is also widely published on issues of global finance, macroeconomic and development strategies, links to his research are here.