About
Dr Mina Toksöz is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and an international economist and author who has travelled and worked on a wide range of emerging markets around the world. Her current focus is on the prospects for South-South trade, FDI, and global and regional supply chains in the Mediterranean Rim economies.
She has worked on the economic and country risk analysis of a wide span of emerging markets covering CIS, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. This includes the management of country risk in investment banking, and at the Economist Intelligence Unit, as Director of the Country Risk Service and regional editor for Middle East and Europe reports. She held research and academic positions as Associate Fellow (2013-22) of the Global Economics and Finance Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA, Chatham House) and Honorary Visiting Lecturer (2011-22) at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. She is the author of The Economist Guide to Country Risk (2014), and co-author (with M.Kutlay & W.Hale) of Industrial Policy in Turkey, 2024.
Her research at the MEC focuses on current trends in South-South trade and FDI in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. She has worked on these themes since the 1990s with publications including The Mediterranean Rim – looking for a growth engine, Durham University, HH Sheikh Al-Sabah Publications, No.27, 2019 and Pockets of Influence: the EC’s Faltering Impact on the Arab Economies, Middle East Programme Report, RIIA, 1993; book chapters: “The GCC: prospects and risks in the new oil boom”, in The Gulf Region, a New Hub of Global Financial Power, eds J.Nugee, P.Subacchi (2008); “EU Trade and Aid Strategy in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean”, in Margins in European Integration, eds, N.Parker, B.Armstrong, (2000).