Samir Makdisi

GRM 2026 Workshop: Mobilizing Diasporas and Gulf Private Investors for the Reconstruction of Syria and Lebanon

Emeritus professor of Economics and served as deputy president of AUB from 1993-98 - American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Samir Makdisi is emeritus professor of Economics and served as deputy president of AUB from 1993-98. He was founding director of AUB's Institute of Financial Economics (1984-2007) and has published seminal works on democracy, economics, and development in the Arab world. He was Lebanon's Minister of Economy and Trade in 1992. His latest publications include: - Aftershock of the Arab Uprisings: Reconstruction, National Peace and Democratic Change (Routledge 2023) Editor and contributor (with R.Soto) - Democratic Transitions in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Editor and contributor (with I. Elbadawi).