Tarik Yousef

Consequently, DSG lost its academic accreditation and its affiliation with Harvard University.

In 2011, Yousef joined Silatech, a social development organization focused on youth employment in the Arab world, as its CEO.

In addition to his role at Silatech, Yousef has been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution since 2007.

He co-founded the Middle East Youth Initiative at Brookings Institution, an applied research and policy program aimed at addressing the challenges facing young people in the region, along with James Wolfensohn.

He has worked in the past at the Middle East and Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund, as a Senior Advisor at the Millennium Project with the United Nations.