Samya Beidas-Strom

Samya Beidas-Strom serves as Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund's Research Department's World Economic Outlook Division, where she has established herself as an expert in global economic imbalances and energy markets. After earning her MPhil in Macroeconomics from University College London and MSc in Finance from the University of York, she has built an impressive career spanning public and private sectors. Her research portfolio includes significant contributions to understanding G-20 imbalances, oil price dynamics, fiscal and monetary policy modeling, exchange rates, and housing markets. Before joining the IMF, she served in the UK's Government Economic Service, where she shaped development and trade policies in emerging Europe before taking on a diplomatic role in Southeast Asia, following her early career as an analyst at Unilever PLC. Her multilingual capabilities in Arabic, French, German, and Italian enhance her international expertise. Through her role at the IMF, she continues to advance understanding of global economic dynamics while maintaining active research in applied macroeconomics and econometrics, particularly focusing on oil price formation and forecasting.