Fuad Hasanov is a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and an adjunct professor of economics at Georgetown University. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a senior research advisor at the University of Oxford’s Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre. Before joining the IMF in 2007,  Hasanov 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, which examines economic diversification in oil-exporting countries. Hasanov received a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.