Dr. Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou (Amin Mohseni) is an economist, academic, and policy expert with more than 25 years of international experience across academia, international organizations, think tanks, and the private sector. His work spans macroeconomics, geoeconomics, energy economics, international trade and finance, emerging markets, and climate finance, with a particular focus on how global economic institutions operate in an increasingly complex and fragmented global geoeconomic landscape.
Dr. Mohseni is currently a Macroeconomist at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, where his research focuses on global macroeconomic trends, emerging markets, international financial institutions, and the changing architecture of the global economy. He helped develop and lead the Center’s Bretton Woods 2.0 initiative, which explores how the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral institutions can adapt to shifting economic, geopolitical, and technological realities.
Alongside his policy work, Dr. Mohseni is a Senior Lecturer at American University, where he teaches graduate courses in economic theory, mathematical economics, and development economics. He is also affiliated with Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, where he trains professionals on issues related to global climate governance, carbon markets, energy economics, and the economics of sustainability.
Previously, Dr. Mohseni served as a Senior Advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), working on macroeconomic policy and issues related to international financial institutions. Earlier, at the World Bank, he contributed to the development of the Global Financial Development Database and the Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, as well as research on financial development, financial inclusion, banking regulation and supervision, and energy economics.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Mohseni has held academic, research, and policy positions in the United States, China, Switzerland, Türkiye, and Qatar. This international experience continues to inform his work at the intersection of research and policy, particularly on geoeconomics, economic development, financial stability, climate finance, and the future of global economic cooperation.