Dr. Ralph Chami is currently on sabbatical from the IMF, where he is Assistant Director in the Institute for Capacity Development. Expert on fragile and low income states, he is co-founder of Rebalance Earth and on the Advisory Boards of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) and the EU-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES, formerly EMNES), as well as Senior Finance Advisor at Biodiversity Initiative, F4B.