About the Author
PhD Candidate at the Paris School of Economics
“Lebanon, Looking Forward”- Author of “Fiscal Policy and Inequality in Lebanon”- Initiating Reform
Previous visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Harvard University. Research fellow at the World Inequality Lab. Researcher focusing on the political economy of Lebanon and the Middle East, with a particular interest in income and wealth inequality and state-building. Author of various media outlets, such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Le Monde.
Writer of the articles “Rethinking the Lebanese Economic Miracle: The Extreme Concentration of Income and Wealth in Lebanon (2005-2014)”, “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East (1990-2016): The World's Most Unequal Region?” with Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty.