FORA.tv Speaker - Uri Dadush

Uri Dadush is senior associate and director in Carnegie's new International Economics Program. His work currently focuses on trends in the global economy and the global financial crisis. He is also interested in the implications of the increased weight of developing countries for the pattern of financial flows, trade and migration, and the associated economic policy and governance questions.

A French citizen, Dadush previously served as the World Bank's director of international trade for six years and before that as director of economic policy for three years. He has also served concurrently as the director of the Bank's world economy group over the last eleven years, leading the preparation of the Bank's flagship reports on the international economy over that period.

Prior to joining the World Bank, he was president and CEO of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Business International, part of the Economist Group (1986-1992); group vice president, international, for Data Resources, Inc. (1982-1986), now Global Insight; and a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Europe.