BIO: Bessma Momani

Dr. Bessma Momani is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is also a Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI), Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Doha Centre, and has been Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Mortara Center.

She is a 2015 Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and a Fulbright Scholar. She has authored and co-edited more than  eight books and  65 scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles and book chapter that have examined the IMF, the World Bank, petrodollars, the Middle East, and Arab youth.

Dr. Momani is a regular contributor to national and international media on international affairs, pluralism, and on global economic governance issues. She has written editorials for the New York Times, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, and many other international newspapers.