Eric Le Borgne is Practice Manager for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice of the World Bank. His previous positions within the World Bank include Economic Advisor with the Operations and Country Services Vice Presidency, Lead Economist for the Mashreq countries, and Senior Economist for the Philippines. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Le Borgne was with the International Monetary Fund. At the IMF he worked in the Research, Fiscal Affairs, and Western Hemisphere departments, on a mix of research, technical assistance, program design and monitoring, and policy analysis, advice, and dialogue. He has also been on the faculty of the Economics Department at the University of Warwick in England and a Visiting Scholar at the CREST-INSEE research center in Paris. Dr. Le Borgne’s latest research and policy publications have been on fiscal policy (including fiscal risk, decentralization, tax amnesties, tax policy reforms, and policy issues facing hydrocarbon exporting economies), long-term unemployment, central bank independence, sovereign wealth funds, growth diagnostics, and on assessing conflict impact. Dr. Le Borgne holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick.