Teaching Experience

M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business – Teaching Assistant:  

• Debt Markets (faculty: Darrell Duffie), course rating*: 4.6/5, 2020 – 2024

• Money and Banking (faculty: Arvind Krishnamurthy), course rating*: 4.1/5, 2021 – 2024

Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business – Teaching Assistant:

• Empirical Corporate Finance (faculty: Juliane Begenau), course rating*: 4.9/5, 2020 – 2024

*Excellent qualitative feedback available upon request

Professional Experience

International Monetary Fund     2017 – 2019

Research Assistant  – Macro-Financial Division, Research Department

• Implemented machine learning (boosting and LASSO) to predict economic growth using bond lending standards in 16 countries since 1995

• Monitored and updated the I.M.F. Early Warning Exercise on real estate market vulnerabilities across 51 advanced and emerging market economies

• Conducted rigorous econometric analyses on corporate bond issuance, credit boom misallocations, unconventional monetary policy, and knowledge spillovers; the latter was featured in the I.M.F. World Economic Outlook, Chapter 4, April 2018

Columbia University                    2017 – 2018

Research Assistant to Professor Charles Calomiris and Professor Edmund Phelps

• Created a balanced panel of deposit insurance levels, reserve requirements, and leverage ratios in 68 countries between 2003 and 2013 

• Analyzed the effect of deposit insurance and financial liberalization on banking crises using probit models

• Investigated patterns of the U.S. trade balance in specific high-technology sectors since 2002

• Produced historic estimates of the U.S. yield curve to examine the evolution of short termism since 1952

AIG, New York City                            2016

Summer Analyst – Chief Technology Office

Awards

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Recipient of the Dixon and Carol Doll Graduate Fellowship

Recipient of the Rosemary and Thomas P. Costin, Jr. Fellowship Fund

Recipient of the Sirine and Ali Ojjeh Fellowship Fund

Recipient of the Amr Enany Fellowship Fund

Recipient of the Terry and Katrina Garnett Fellowship Fund

Recipient of the MBA Class of 1989 Fellowship Fund

Recipient of the Reid W. Dennis Fellowship Fund in the Graduate School of Business

International Monetary Fund

Research Department Spot Award, 2018 and 2019

Giving Together Appreciation Award, 2019

Columbia University

Dean's Honor List (all semesters)

Recipient of the merit-based John Jay Scholarship

Recipient of the Columbia University Alumni Scholarship

Recipient of the Columbia University Summer Enhancement Fellowship

Service

Stanford University       2020 – 2023

Ph.D. student mentor

Senior editor of the Stanford International Policy Review

Managing editor of the Stanford International Policy 

International Monetary Fund 2017 – 2019

Lead coordinator of the Financial Literacy Program

Board member of the Grants Review Committee

Columbia University     2013 – 2017

Member of the Alumni Representative Committee

Executive member of the Senior Fund Committee

Radio journalist at WKCR 89.9 FM NY

Founder of the HeForShe campus chapter

Skills

Programming Languages Python, R, MATLAB, SQL, CSS, HTML, LaTex, SharePoint, VBA, AutoCAD

Statistical Software SAS, STATA

Other Tools         Web scraping

Personal Information

Nationality U.S. permanent resident; Lebanese national

Languages English, French, Arabic, German (elementary), Italian (elementary), Chinese (elementary)

Interests Reading, hiking, cycling, jogging, strength training, and photography.