Christof Rühl is Global Head of Research at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), responsible for creating and leading a global research function to provide economic, geopolitical and energy analysis to the Fund. He assumed this role in August 2014.
Christof has a distinguished track record as an economist in business, policy and academia. From 2005 to 2014 he served as Group Chief Economist and Vice President of BP plc. From 1998 to 2005 he was at the World Bank, including as the Bank’s Chief Economist in Russia and in Brazil. From 1996-98 he held the position of Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Christof began his career as an academic economist, first in Germany at the Universities of Bremen and Hohenheim and from 1991 at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
Christof held Visiting Professorships at academic institutions worldwide. His areas of specialisation are macroeconomics and energy economics; he is published and quoted widely in these fields. He currently also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Halyk Bank, Kazakhstan.