Ragui Assaad is professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and is a non-resident Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany.  Assaad’s current research focuses on labor markets and human development in the Arab World, with a focus on youth and gender issues as they relate to education, transition from school-to-work, labor force participation, employment and unemployment, informality, migration, and family formation.