Tarik Yousef

Tarik Yousef el-Magariaf is the chief executive of Silatech, a social initiative for youth employment and entrepreneurship in the Arab world, and a leading authority on the economies of the Arab world.

Prior to joining Silatech in 2011, between 2006 and 2010 he served as the second dean of the Dubai School of Government (DSG), a graduate school of public policy and international affairs established in cooperation with the John F. Kennedy School of Government. With only nine faculty members, the four most senior members quit in late-2010, bringing Yousef's single term as Dean to an end. DSG lost its academic accreditation and its Harvard affiliation.

During this period and up till present, Yousef has served as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he co-founded with James Wolfensohn the Middle East Youth Initiative, an applied research and policy program designed to benefit young Arabs in the areas of employment, education, housing and entrepreneurship.

Between 1998 and 2006, Yousef worked at Georgetown University, where he was Assistant Professor of Economics in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and Sheikh Al Salem Al Sabah Professor of Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.