Lahcen Achy is a resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. He is an economist with expertise in development and institutional economics, as well as trade and labor, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
From 2004 to 2009 he was a professor at Morocco’s National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, where he taught development economics and international economics. In September 2008, he was a visiting professor at the Gambian University of Banjul. Prior to that, he was a research associate at the Free University of Brussels and a visiting professor in the international master’s program jointly organized by the Free University and the University of Namur.
Achy is a research fellow in the Economic Reform Forum and the Moroccan Academic Liaison for the Researchers’ Alliance for Development. In this capacity he works to increase interaction between the academic development community and the World Bank. He has consulted for the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Economic Commission for Africa.
Ph.D., Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Masters in Applied Economics and Statistics, National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
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Marina Ottaway and
Amr Hamzawy
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Sun Zhe,
Xie Tao,
John Holden,
Geoff Dyer,
Robin Lustig
The establishment of an effective cooperative foreign policy with Turkey would get the European External Action Service off to a strong start and demonstrate that both Ankara and Brussels are committed to an ambitious agenda for the wider Middle East.
Heather Grabbe and
Sinan Ülgen
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Dmitri Trenin
