Dr. Oussama Himani has 20 years of experience in public and private sector financial institutions. He began his career at the International Monetary Fund in 1990, where he rose to become Senior Advisor to the Executive Director and a Member of the Board. During his IMF tenure, Oussama was involved in the review and monitoring of IMF programs critical to managing the Asian and Russian crises.
Oussama then joined UBS, where he became Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at UBS Investment Bank, as well as Head of Emerging Markets Research at UBS Wealth Management. He was voted the #2 emerging markets strategist in the Institutional Investor and Extel surveys for 2007.
Oussama earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.