7. A “True” Industrial Policy for Europe Is a Technology and Innovation Policy

Reda Cherif is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Research Advisor at the Center of Technology and Industrialization for Development (TIDE), University of Oxford, and a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Arts. He joined the IMF in 2008, as part of the Economist Program, and worked in several departments: in the Fiscal Affairs Department, where he was an economist on the Gabon program; in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, where he covered Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain; and in the African Department, where he worked in the Regional Studies Division, issuing analytical work on trade, competition and oil economies. He has published numerous articles on the energy transition, public debt dynamics, commodity exporters, development, industrial policy, growth, and innovation. His work was published in the Journal of Development Economics and World Development among others, and it was featured in the Economist, Financial Times and National Geographic. He is the co-editor, with Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu, of Breaking the Oil Spell, a book studying economic diversification in oil exporters. Reda holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.