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Muhammad Meki is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Development and an Associate Member of the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. He is an Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), CESifo, the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), and Pembroke College. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

He completed his Ph.D at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford (St. John's College), followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship (JRF) until 2020. He has also completed postgraduate degrees in finance (LSE), economics (Cambridge), and development economics (Oxford). His work lies at the intersection of development economics and finance, focusing on the challenges faced by small firms in developing countries.

Prior to academia, he worked for five years as a trader in financial markets for Bank of America in London and Deutsche Bank in Singapore, where he traded European and Asian government bonds, foreign exchange derivatives, and other fixed-income products.