Michael is a Senior Vice President on the Jefferies MENA equities desk with 16 years of investment banking experience in Dubai. Prior to Jefferies, he was a senior desk analyst and EM strategist on the Emerging Market cash equities desk at Tradition, a global interdealer broker. Before that, he worked at Arqaam Capital, a leading Middle East-focused investment bank, where he was one of the founding members of Arqaam’s research franchise, serving as deputy head of research and covering macroeconomics, strategy, and index analysis. Michael earned both his B.A. in Economics and his Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the American University of Beirut, with a minor in American Studies.