MENA Economies Navigating War: Managing Shocks and Shaping the Future
Deparmental Event
DATE: Apr 14, 2026
DAY: Tuesday
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
LOCATION: HQ1 Atrium, HQ1-1-700
DATE: Apr 14, 2026
DAY: Tuesday
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
LOCATION: HQ1 Atrium, HQ1-1-700
Bo Li assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the IMF on August 23, 2021. He is responsible for the IMF’s work on about 90 countries as well as on a wide range of policy issues.
Before joining the IMF, Mr. Li worked for many years at the People’s Bank of China, most recently as Deputy Governor. He earlier headed the Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy II, and Legal and Regulation Departments, where he played an important role in the reform of state-owned banks, the drafting of China’s anti-money-laundering law, the internationalization of the renminbi, and the establishment of China’s macroprudential policy framework.
Mr. Muhammad Aurangzeb assumed the role of Minister responsible for Finance and Revenue in the Federal cabinet of the Government of Pakistan in March 2024.
Prior to this responsibility, Mr. Aurangzeb had been a successful international career banker for over 35 years having served most recently at Pakistan’s largest systemically important bank (HBL) as President & CEO.
Before returning to Pakistan in April 2018 to lead HBL, Mr. Aurangzeb was the CEO of JP Morgan’s Global Corporate Bank for the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he held senior management roles at other global financial institutions including ABN AMRO, RBS, and Citibank, based in New York, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
Mr. Aurangzeb continues to be the only Pakistani to be invited in 2018 to the exclusive membership of the Global CEO Council organized by WSJ / DowJones group. He has also served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Banks Association, Chairman of the Pakistan Business Council, and Council Member at the Institute of Bankers Pakistan.
Mr. Aurangzeb received his BS and MBA degrees from The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).
Mike Pyle, Senior Managing Director, is the Deputy Head of BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group (PMG), which spans systematic and discretionary investment strategies across liquid asset classes. Mike directly oversees PMG’s hedge funds platform, its fundamental equities franchise, and the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). Mike is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC).
Before rejoining the firm in 2024 after senior roles in the White House, Mike previously worked at BlackRock from 2014 to 2021, culminating as the firm’s Global Chief Investment Strategist. Earlier, he had been the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock’s Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions platform and a portfolio manager on the firm’s Global Tactical Asset Allocation team.
Mike has served extensively in the U.S. government. From 2022 to 2024, Mike was the U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, leading the U.S. government’s international economic agenda and serving as President Biden’s personal envoy to the G7, G20, and APEC summits—shaping policy on issues including Russia’s war against Ukraine, U.S.-China relations, energy security, trade and investment, and advanced technology and AI.
Earlier, Mike had been Chief Economic Advisor to Vice President Harris and, in a prior administration, had been a Special Assistant for Economic Policy to President Obama in addition to holding other senior roles in the Obama White House and Treasury Department from 2009 to 2013. Mike began his career in government as a law clerk to then-Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Mike graduated summa cum laude in economics from Dartmouth College, where he was class salutatorian and recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize as the top economics graduate. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, where he studied economics and law as a Keasbey Scholar. He is a CFA charter holder.
Tim Gould was appointed the Agency’s Chief Energy Economist in 2021. As Chief Energy Economist, he provides strategic advice on energy economics across a wide range of IEA activities and analysis. Mr Gould is also Head of the Division for Energy Supply and Investment Outlooks, in which capacity he co-leads the World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication, and oversees the Agency’s work on investment and finance, including the World Energy Investment report.
Mr Gould joined the IEA in 2008, initially as a specialist on Russian and Caspian energy, and in recent years has designed and directed the World Energy Outlook together with the IEA’s Chief Energy Modeller while contributing to the Outlook as a principal author. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr Gould worked on European and Eurasian energy issues in Brussels and has ten years of experience in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine.
He graduated from Oxford University and has a post-graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.
