Florence Eid-Oakden

Dr. Florence Eid-Oakden is a British economist, CEO and Chief economist of Arabia Monitor - a London-based independent think tank focused on the economies, markets and geopolitics of the Middle East & North Africa MENA.

Dr. Florence Eid-Oakden
Born
Lebanon
NationalityBritish
OccupationEconomist
Websitewww.arabiamonitor.com

Career

Dr. Florence Eid-Oakden is the CEO and Chief Economist of Arabia Monitor. She has been a professor of economics and finance at the American University of Beirut and a visiting professor at INSEAD and HEC Paris. Formerly head of MENA research at JP Morgan, Dr. Eid-Oakden has also worked with the World Bank on Latin America and on North Africa, and subsequently, on the buy side as a hedge fund investment professional. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Arab Banking Corporation International Bank in London and for Bank ABC Jordan, the Arab Bankers Association of North America in New York, and sits on the Advisory Council of the Al Faisal University College of Business, Saudi Arabia. She has served as a Trustee of the American University in Paris, and a Director of Shuaa Capital in Dubai. Recently she served as a member of HSBC’s Middle East Financial System Risk Advisory Committee.

Dr. Eid-Oakden is a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and has appeared on CNN, France24, and The Wall Street Journal.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Dr. Eid-Oakden received her Ph.D. in Organization Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a joint MIT-Harvard Doctoral Committee, under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Bengt Holmström. She is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Spanish, with a working knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.[8][9][10]

gollark: But in most cases they are motivated by real world examples of some kind.
gollark: Probability distributions are just functions, and you can define functions with all kinds of fun properties even if they aren't actually things you would likely encounter in real life.
gollark: Ah, inevitably, Wikipedia.
gollark: I don't know of anything which is distributed like that.
gollark: I doubt in practice you would actually get a normal distribution, but sure.

References
  1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-02-18/a-clearer-picture-of-gcc-growth-in-2019-video
  2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-03-01/arabia-monitor-s-eid-oakden-on-islamic-tax-on-saudi-banks-video
  3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-06-14/arabia-monitor-says-gcc-qatar-tensions-nothing-new-video
  4. https://www.arabiamonitor.com/in-the-media/arabia-monitor’s-dr-florence-eid-oakden-cnn-discussing-saudi-turkey-relations
  5. https://www.france24.com/ar/20181109-الأسبوع-الاقتصادي-تحديات-اقتصاد-أمريكي-انتخابات-نصفية-إيران
  6. https://www.wsj.com/articles/imfs-lagarde-drops-out-of-saudi-business-conference-1539773592
  7. https://www.arabiamonitor.com/media
  8. Florence Eid-Oakden on globalfemaleleaders.com
  9. Florence Eid-Oakden (Middle East Institute)
  10. Florence Eid-Oakden on atlanticspeakerbureau.com


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