Caroline Freund

Title: Chief Economist

Bio: Caroline Freund was the former Chief Economist in the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. Ms. Freund has also worked at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board. Ms. Freund has worked on economic growth, international trade, and international finance. Her work covers the developing world and transition countries. Ms. Freund is the author of numerous academic and policy papers on international trade, development, and current account adjustment. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of International Economics. She is well known for her theoretical and empirical work on regionalism, highlighting potential gains, and for identifying cutoffs and characteristics of current account adjustment. Ms. Freund is ranked among the top 5% of economists by RePec and is in the top 100 female economists. She is on the board of the Economic Research Forum headquartered in Cairo, the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis, and on the editorial board of the World Bank Economic Review and a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Ms. Freund holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.