Omer Karasapan

Omer Karasapan is the Managing Editor at the Development Front. He worked at the World Bank for over thirty years where he was the Regional Knowledge and Learning Coordinator in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, the Knowledge Coordinator for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in the Private Sector Development Department and a consultant in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa region (EMENA) and the Europe and Central Asia region (ECA). Before joining the World Bank, he worked at Human Rights Watch and also taught at New York University. Born in Turkey, Omer received his BA from the American University in Cairo and his MA and MPhil from New York University. He has published widely, mostly on Refugees and Middle Eastern topics at the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, MERIP, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, and elsewhere.