ABANA invites you to a Zoom Webinar with Farouk Soussa, Senior MENA Economist at Goldman Sachs, in conversation with ABANA President Mohannad Aama.

Join us on May 16th, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. The discussion will focus on the region’s economic outlook, with insights into both current challenges and areas of opportunity.

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Farouk is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economist within the CEEMEA economics team based in London. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2018 as an executive director in Global Investment Research and was named managing director in 2023.

Prior to joining the firm, Farouk was head of MENA Economics at Citigroup. Before that, he worked at Standard & Poor’s (S&P) as head of Government Ratings for the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. In 2009, Farouk moved to Dubai to help establish S&P’s office in the Dubai International Financial Centre. He began his career as an economist with the Bank of England in 1998, initially working in the Regulatory Policy Division, during which time he did an 18-month secondment as a bank regulator with the newly-created Financial Services Authority. He subsequently participated in a sabbatical as a Jean-Monet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and then worked in the International Finance Division of the Bank of England.

Farouk earned a BA in Economics from Deree College, the American College of Greece in 1994. He also received an MSc in Economics and Finance in 1995 and a PhD in Economics in 2000 from the University of Birmingham, UK.

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