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Jad Chaaban

Jad Chaaban

Jad Chaaban

Jad Chaaban is an economist and political activist. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and a visiting scholar at Paris-Dauphine University and INSEAD.

He previously held research and visiting positions at the Toulouse School of Economics, the London School of Economics and the World Bank. He is a founding member of the Lebanese Economics Association and a former member of the Advisory Board of UNDP’s global Human Development Report.

Analysis: With no clear accountability or fundamental changes in political and financial governance, the new IMF-backed agreement will simply provide a lifeline to Lebanon's corrupt political class.

25 April, 2022