Economics & Policy

Countries in the Middle East have started to realize that meeting their long-term economic development goals depends on their ability to join the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution.’ The United Arab Emirates…

The proverbial Lebanese entrepreneur is nothing if not agile and adaptive. She or he is a dealmaker par excellence and almost genetically primed to spot opportunities and seek to exploit…

As I write this article, eight years have passed since I committed to return to Lebanon as the 16th president of the American University of Beirut (AUB). Over the last…

Lebanon’s human infrastructure is our biggest hope for a bright future. Polishing our strategy and re-aligning priorities is the first step forward for Lebanese American University. Strategy focus for Academic…

For the Lebanese Private Sector Network (LPSN), the year of 2023 is the year of action, a year where we will focus on vigorously pursuing a major employment creation initiative…

A country’s brand is made of intricate and complicated components which work together to create this distinctive identity. Lebanon has unique attributes linked to its geopolitical location and its climate.…

In the last three years, the Lebanese digital industry and private sector have been challenged beyond their capabilities from every side; with an economic meltdown, financial and monetary crises, and…

As Lebanon keeps pushing through one of the greatest economic and financial collapse’s in history, we can only appreciate the resilience of its private sector. Since the “official” start of…

Lebanon is facing a very challenging time, and our governments have taken no action at all and remained in a state of procrastination for the past three and a half…

The repercussions of the ongoing crisis in Lebanon have knocked on every door, be it businesses, homes or the public sector. Whilst companies cannot ignore the crisis, there are strategies…