Dr. Naël Shehadeh is an economist and senior program manager for the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for Central Banks Program. Naël is also a research fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development, at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He has worked for the past years in advising and cooperating with different financial institutions on issues ranging from governance, climate finance risks and research design. Prior to joining the program, he has worked as an economist and strategist in the private sector and has also worked in Econometric modelling at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He has a PhD in Economics from the Aix Marseille School of Economics, and an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London.