Eid-Oakden was formerly head of MENA research at JP Morgan, and has subsequently worked with the World Bank on Latin America and North Africa, and also, on the buy side as a hedge fund investment professional.
She sat on the Board of Directors of Natixis Saudi Arabia where she serves as chair of the Audit & Risk and Compensation Committees.
A few years back, she enjoyed serving as a Trustee of the American University in Paris, where she completed her undergraduate studies.
She received her Ph.D. in Organization Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a joint MIT-Harvard Doctoral Committee, under the supervision of Bengt Holmström, a Nobel Laureate Professor.
[citation needed] She was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and has appeared on CNN, France24, and The Wall Street Journal.