Hasan Dudu is an economist in the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department. His work focuses on the macrocriticality of impact of climate change on real, financial, external, and public sectors in region's economies. Prior to joining the IMF, Hasan was a senior economist at the World Bank, where he contributed to the development of the macroeconomic models for the Country Climate and Development Reports . Before the World Bank, he was a scientific project officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). Hasan holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics from the Department of Economics of the Middle East Technical University.