Jad Chaaban

Associate Professor of Economics, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Dr. Chaaban holds a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics, in addition to a Master’s in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics from the same university, and an MBA from ESCP Business School. He is currently an associate professor of economics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Prior to this, he was an associate professor of economics and coordinator of the Applied Economics and Development Research Group at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where he also served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and on core university committees. He also held visiting research and teaching positions at INSEAD, Paris-Dauphine PSL University, the London School of Economics and the Toulouse School of Economics. Dr. Chaaban served as an international consultant for various UN agencies (UNDP, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF and WHO), and in 2014-2015 he was the Lead Author of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Arab Human Development Report 2016, and in 2018 a member of the Advisory Board of UNDP’s Global Human Development Report (HDR). Dr Chaaban’s primary research interests are in development economics and industrial organization, and his extended interests include public economics of health, education and labour policies. His work focuses mostly on using tools in micro and applied economics to tackle public policy issues that affect the lives of the most vulnerable groups in society. He is also a polylingual who easily works in several languages, and a strong believer in inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural work and collaborations. Dr. Chaaban regularly contributes to economic policy analysis on Middle Eastern and global development issues to various international institutions and UN agencies, and his research and advocacy work has often been featured in international media. His interdisciplinary work has been published in several academic journals in disciplines including Economics, Area Studies, Demography, Agricultural Policy and Public Health.