What We Do
The Financial Stability Board: Unlocking the Black BoxHigh-Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board
Bessma Momani
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Bessma Momani is both a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) and an Associate Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Momani’s current research examines International Monetary Fund reform through changing internal organizational behaviour and the history of IMF Executive Board seat allocation. In addition to specializing on the International Monetary Fund and its policies, Dr. Momani examines economic liberalization in the Middle East and has written on the U.S. Middle East Free Trade Area, Euro-Mediterranean trade initiatives, economic integration of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the future of petrodollars, and liberalization in Egypt. Dr Bessma Momani earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Western Ontario, Bessma Momani focused her post-doctorate research on organizational behaviour and seat allocation within the IMF. Her work in this area gained particular prominence following the global financial crisis in 2008, at which time she revisited the topic with new insight.