About LCPS
Our mission
We aim to produce independent, high-quality research relevant to policymaking and to promote active reform through advocacy and raising public awareness.
What we do
Based in Beirut, we at LCPS have established ourselves as a respectable voice that contributes to the national and regional debates on issues pertaining to transparency and accountable governance. Established in 1989, LCPS operates as an independently managed, politically neutral, non-profit, and non-governmental think tank with extensive experience in research, advocacy, and training.
Over the years, we have initiated many advocacy initiatives for judicial reforms, transparent budget process, decentralization and local governance, and the enhancement of the role of business associations in policy making.
Board
Yasser Akkaoui
President
Chairman of Capital Concept
Editor-In-Chief of Executive Magazine
Founder of Capital Concept and PrimeJob
Management and Entrepreneurship Instructor at the American University of Beirut
Chadia el Meouchi
Vice-President
Managing Partner at Badri and Salim el Meouchi Law Firm
Founding member and head of the Lebanese Corporate Governance Task Force’s Legal and Regulatory Committee
Member of the Lebanese Committee for Human Rights Watch
Co-founder and member of Les Journées des Sciences Association
Co-founder of the Middle East Leadership Initiative
Founder and member of Young Arab Leaders Lebanon
Mohamed Alem
Secretary
Acting Managing Partner of Alem & Associates Law Firm
Chairman of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators-Lebanon
Secretary General of the Lebanese Transparency Association
Vice-chairman of the Licensing Executive Society –Arab Countries
Founding member of Human Rights Watch’s Beirut Committee
Marwan Kheirredine
Treasurer
Lebanon’s Minister of State
General Manager of Al Mawarid Bank
Former board member of the Beirut Stock Exchange
Former board member of the Association of Banks in Lebanon
Finance lecturer at the American University of Beirut
Founding member of the Young President’s Organization-Lebanon
Paul Salem
Member
Director of Carnegie Middle East Center
Founder and former Director of Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (1989-1999)
Former General Director of the Fares Foundation
Former member of the Lebanese Commission for Electoral Law Reform
Ziyad Baroud
Member
Lawyer and Partner at HBDT Law Firm
Former Minister of Interior and Municipalities
Lecturer at the Saint Joseph University
Grand Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite de la Republique Française
Officier de la Légion d’Honneur
Former member of the Lebanese Commission for Electoral Law Reform
Former Secretary General of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections
Research fellows
Economists
Bassam Fattouh
Economist
Dr. Bassam Fattouh is the Director of the Oil and Middle East Program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University; and Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has published a variety of articles on the international oil markets, the oil pricing system, natural gas markets in the MENA, and the dynamics of oil prices and oil price differentials in refereed journals such as Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, and Energy Policy. He has also published in non-energy related areas where his papers have appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economics Letters, Macroeconomic Dynamics and in other journals and books. He is also a Consultant for a number of international oil companies, and a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, and WU Executive Academy (Vienna University of Economics and Business). Bassam holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, University of London.
Carole Nakhle
Energy Economist
Dr. Carole Nakhle is an energy economist based in London. She specializes in international petroleum contractual arrangements and fiscal regimes, world oil and gas market developments, and energy policy. She acts as Economic Consultant at the Commonwealth Secretariat and External Expert for the Fiscal Affairs department at the IMF advising host governments on their legal, regulatory and fiscal framework for the oil and gas sector. She is also the Director of Crystol Energy Limited (UK); Associate Lecturer in Energy Economics at the University of Surrey (UK); Program Advisor for the International Tax and Investment Centre (Washington); and serves as Special Parliamentary Advisor in the House of Lords, UK. She makes regular contributions to the Geopolitical Information Service, based in Liechtenstein. She has published extensively particularly in the field of energy policy and petroleum fiscal regimes. Carole holds a PhD in Energy Economics from the University of Surrey.
