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Katelyn Merrigan
The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.
Speaker: Ziad Daoud, Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg LP, Senior Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Moderator: Tim Cheston, Senior Manager, Applied Research, Growth Lab
About the Talk: One of the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030 is to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil. In this event, Ziad Daoud, Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg LP, will analyze the results of Saudi diversification efforts and whether Saudi Vision 2030 is succeeding in decreasing the economy's reliance on oil revenue. Tim Cheston, Senior Manager at the Growth Lab, will follow with a discussion on the challenges to economic diversification in an oil economy.
About the Speaker: Ziad Daoud is a Senior Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is the Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. Prior to that, he was the Chief Middle East Economist at Bloomberg, Head of Economics at QNB Group, and an economist at Fulcrum Asset Management. He holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in economics and statistics from University College London.
Speakers and Presenters
Ziad Daoud, Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg LP, Senior Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs