Fadhel Kaboub
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University, and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is the author of Global South Perspectives on substack. In 2025, Dr. Kaboub was recognized by the New African Magazine in the Top 100 Most Influential Africans under the Thinkers & Opinion Shapers category. He is a board member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs at UN-DESA. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development, an expert group member with the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, a member of the Earth4All 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission, a Steering Committee member with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, and a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition Finance. He has recently served as Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the Organisation of Southern Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on designing public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. His recent work focuses on Just Transition, Climate Finance, and transforming the global trade, finance, and investment architecture. His most recent publications include One Voice. One Strategy. A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy, (September 2026) and Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa (May 2023). He has held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute (NY), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MA), the Economic Research Forum (Cairo), Power Shift Africa (Nairobi), African Forum on Climate Change, Energy and Development (Abuja), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (Tunis). Dr. Kaboub is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively called The Geopolitical Bargain of the Century: Towards a New International Economic Order of Peace, Justice, and Sustainable Prosperity (forthcoming).
Learning & Teaching
- Econ 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Econ 206: Global Green New Deal
- Econ 301: Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Econ 411: Monetary Theory
- Econ 441: Political Economy of the Middle East
Works
- “One Voice. One Strategy. A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy,” Southern Africa Resource Watch, Johannesburg, South Africa (September 2026).
- “The SDGs need more than Financing. They need Structural Transformation,” UN-DESA SDG blog (September 2026).
- “Sovereign Debt Cancellation and Global South Debtors’ Coalition,” (with Andrés Chiriboga), New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (July 2026).
- “Global South Debt Crises are Driven by Structural Debt Traps,” Global South Policy Hub, Policy Brief (June 2026).
- “The Unfinished Business of Decolonizing African Economies: An Institutionalist Perspective,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 60, Issue 2 (June 2026).
- “Africa’s Just Transition Opportunity: Decolonising Economic Transformation for Climate Resilience” (with Mohamed Adow), Earth4All, The Club of Rome (March 2026).
- “A Coherent Framework for Sovereign Debt and Economic Transformation: Towards a Global South Debtors’ Coalition” (with Andrés Chiriboga), Institute for Economic Justice (April 2025).
- “¿Fue la crisis del COVID-19 una oportunidad económica perdida para México? Un análisis de la teoría monetaria moderna,” (with Jesús Gonzalo Reséndiz Silva) in Helen Contreras Hernández and Miguel Ángel Reyna Castillo (eds.), El Impacto del COVID-19 Desde el Enfoque de las Ciencias Sociales. Editorial Fontamara, Mexico (2024).
- “Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa,” (with Youba Sokona, Yacob Mulugetta, Meron Tesfamichael, Mohamed Adow, Matthew Stillwell, Niclas Hällström, and Colin Besaans) Policy Report, JustTransitionAfrica.org (May 2023).
- “Preparing for a Climate Refugee Tsunami: The Case for Climate Reparations,” Discover Society (April 2021).
Other
- Top 100 Most Influential Africans; Thinkers & Opinion Shapers category - New African Magazine (2025).
