Listen to leading economists looking at the latest economic data, debunking myths and defining the risks we need to watch out for – and those we don’t.

I have 15 years experience in senior advisory for multilateral development organisations and financial institutions on geopolitics, political economy, geoeconomics, risk assessments and foresight exercises. I am the senior political counsellor for the Arab world and Türkiye at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). As the author of two critically acclaimed books — the internationally bestselling “”Egypt on the Brink” (Yale, 2010), published just three months before Egyp ...