Zaki Alattar

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Zaki Alattar is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Business and Middle Eastern Studies. As a 2019 Stevens Scholar, Zaki traveled to Iraq and the UAE to conduct research for his senior thesis on the restructuring of the Iraqi banking sector after 2003. His research historicizes the reconstruction of Iraq's financial institutions by Iraqi-American and American consultants and examines their influence on the current Iraqi economy characterized by ballooning debt and widespread corruption.