Adnan Mazarei works mainly on the economic issues of the Middle East and North Africa and sovereign debt. Previously he was a deputy director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he worked on resolving various financial crises in emerging markets. In addition, he contributed to the IMF's policy work on international financial architecture and sovereign debt issues. He helped prepare the Santiago Principles that established best practices and guidelines for managing sovereign wealth funds. Between 2002 and 2005, he served as advisor to IMF management. More recently, Mazarei helped manage the IMF's strategy and global coordination of the support for the Arab Spring countries and for the economic policy response to the recent conflicts and refugee crisis in the Middle East. Mazarei earned his PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has authored several articles on economic policy and a book on sovereign wealth funds. Mazarei has also been a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2019.
