Alistair Dieppe was Lead Economist of the Prospects Group in EFI where he lead a team preparing a book on Global productivity. Alistair is now working at the European Central Bank analyzing and forecasting the Global Economy, including studying linkages between advanced and emerging markets. Alistair Dieppe has published on a wide variety of topics as well as being a developer of the BEAR toolbox. He has also worked at Oxford Economics and Cambridge Econometrics.