Carlos Naffah is a university professor and a consultant specialized in refugee crisis management and public policy. He is a Ford Global Fellow (2020) and recipient of the German Foreign Ministry Award “German Unity through Arab Eyes” (2015). He headed the regional committee in charge of publishing Adyan Foundation's Glossary of Key Terms in Monitoring and Evaluation. He also headed the Arab Standard Classification of Occupations Committee as part of the GIZ Policy Reform program, as well as the Lebanese-German Academic Exchange Program with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In addition to his PhD in Education Policy from the Lebanese University, he holds a master’s degree in International Education Management from Ludwigsburg University, Germany, and a master’s degree in Political and Administration Sciences from the Lebanese University.

Rasha Akel is a researcher at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University of Beirut with high distinction. She also holds a master of arts degree in Migration Studies from the Lebanese American University (LAU). During her graduate studies at LAU, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Migration Studies where she studied the impact of climate change on migration. At LCPS, she has published several studies on renewable energy and other environmental issues.