Rima Turk-Ariss

Rima Turk-Ariss is an IMF senior economist who worked on various IMF assignments ranging from low-income and fragile countries to frontier and emerging markets and advanced economies, across the African, European, and Strategy, Policy and Review departments. Prior to joining the IMF, Ms. Turk-Ariss was a tenured professor in finance at the Lebanese American University and a regular visiting scholar to the Bank of Finland and the Université de Strasbourg. She has published extensively in top-tier peer-refereed journals, including on financial markets and stability, the sovereign-bank nexus, fragile states, trade diversification, migrant integration, corporate debt limits, and private sector investment.