Fuad Hasanov is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the IMF in 2007, Fuad was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His recent research focuses on natural resources, growth and innovation, and industrial policy (or the policy that shall not be named). He is the co-editor, with Reda Cherif and Min Zhu, of Breaking the Oil Spell that examines economic diversification in oil-exporting countries. Fuad received a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.