Director, Institute  of Financial Economics, 1984 -2007

  Member of Board Directors, Global Development Network, 2000 - 2008

  Deputy president, American University of Beirut, 1993-1998(Recipient of the American University of Beirut     Medal for distinguished service to the University, 1998)

  Chair, Board of Trustees, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (1993-2001)

  Member of the Steering Committee, Forum of Euro-Mediterranean Economic Institutes (FEMISE), 1999

  Minister of Economy and Trade, 1992

Completed

A two-ear research project (co-managed with Ibrahim Elbadawi) housed at the IFE and supported by and IDRC research grant has been completed, and an edited book manuscript entitled: Explaining he Democracy Deficit in the Arab World: Oil, Conflict and Beyond has also been completed.  19 established researchers from the Arab World and abroad have participated in this project.  Its primary objective was to identify the factors underlying the persistence of Arab autocratic regimes despite notable economic growth since independence.

 Current

 - Conditions governing the transition from autocracy to democracy in the Arab World.                                     - The impact of consociationalism on development: the Case of Lebanon                                                        - The effects of the recent global financial crises on the economic growth of the Arab Countries. 

(co-edited with I. Elbadawi), Explaining the Democracy Deficit in the Arab World: oil, Conflicts and Beyond.   

Recent:

The Lessons of Lebanon: the economics of war and development, London IB Tauris (2004) Translated into Arabic and published by Dar Annahar, Beirut, December 2004. (Recipient of the Suad Al Sabbah First Prize award for 2005 for published work in Arabic in the Social Sciences).

Articles
Forthcoming

"Exlplaining the Arab Democracy Deficit: The Role of Oil and Conflicts", in I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi (eds), (with I. Elbadawi) 

"Lebanon: The Constrained Democracy and Its National Developmental Impact", in I. Elbadawi and S.Makdisi (eds), (with F. Kiwan and M. Marktanner)

Recent ( since 2005)
 "Development Against All Odds? The Case of Lebanon", Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, V.4, Issue 2008 (with M. Marktanner)

"Rebuilding Without Resolution: The Lebanese Economy and State in the Post-Civil War Period", L. Binder (ed.), Rebuilding of Devastated Economies in the Middle East. (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007)

"Explaining the Democracy Deficit  in the Arab World", The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance - V. 46, Issue 5, February 2007 (with I. Elbadawi).

"The Arab/Israeli Conflict and the Question of Democracy in the Arab World", in the Middle East: Issues and Conflicts, Institute of Political Science, St. Joseph University, (Beirut, 2007/08).

i "The Determinants of Economic Growth in the MENA Region", J. Nugent and H. Pesaran (eds), Explaining Growth in the Middle East (North Holland/Elsevier, Contributions to Economic Analysis Series), V. 278, December 2006 (with I. Limam and Z. Fattah).

" Developmental Thought and Arab Development", N. Ferjani et.al (eds), Horizons of Arab Development, volume in memory of Mervat El Badawi-Arab Fund for Economic and Economic Development/Dar 'Attalia', 2006 - in Arabic.

"The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990",  P. Collier and N. Sambanis (eds), Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, vs I and II , The World Bank, 2005 (With R. Sadaka),.

"Modernity and the Modernization of the Arab Economies", in G., Tarabishi (ed), Modernity and Arab Modernity", published by Arab Institute of Modern Thought, (Beirut 2005).

"Development of Financial Markets in the Arab World", in the Financial Sector and Economic Growth, The Arab Monetary Fund, 2004.

"Development of Financial Markets in the Arab World" in the Financial Sector and Economic Growth, the Arab Monetary Fund, 2005.