Dr. Salim Makdessi
Summary:
Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Lebanese University (Lebanon) since March 2019; Academic and Administrative Management of 6 Geographical branches (6 Branches Directors), 42 Heads of Departments, 440 professors and researchers (PhD holders), 220 administrative employees and 6800 students in Bachelor and Master programs.
Full Professor at the Lebanese University, he holds an Accreditation/Habilitation to Supervise Researches (HDR) in Business Sciences, after a PhD in Business Sciences from Jean Moulin University (Lyon III) in France.
Coordinator of the Employability Sub-Network at the Union of Mediterranean Universities UNIMED (Italy); the Employability Sub-Network at UNIMED includes 31 Universities from 15 countries of the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Coach, Mentor, Leader, Trainer, International Employability Expert, Quality Expert
Main areas of specialization: Finance – Management – Innovation
Relevant Experience:
Full Professor – Full-time (2014 – …), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Associate Professor– Full-time (2008 – 2014)
Associate Professor – Part-time (2006 – 2008)
Lecturer (2004 – 2006)
2019 – … Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration at the Lebanese University
2019 – … Honorary President of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Lebanese University (Since March 2019)
2017-2021 Director of the « Mutual Fund of Lebanese University Professors (Public Administration) » (Since September 2017 till June 2021). Managing an annual budget of 40 billions LBP
2020 – Founder of the Center for Sustainability and Gender Equality, working for the Lebanese University Professors and students
2020 – Founder of 2 Lebanese University Fab Labs (Digital Fabrication Laboratories)
The 2 created Fab Labs at the Lebanese University (North and South) aim to enhance Lebanese University students competencies in digital fabrication. They are laboratories, places to play, to create, to mentor and to invent: places for learning and innovation; they provide access to the environment, the skills, the materials and the advanced technology to allow anyone anywhere to make (almost) anything. Funded by UNICEF
https://www.fablabs.io
2016-2019 Member of the Administrative Work Rationalization Committee; (Attached to the Lebanese University President – Since December 2016)
2006-2014 and 2015-2019 : Chairman “Finance and Financial Institutions” Department at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Branch III
2015 -… Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Since June 2015); ISSN 2216-6704
2019 -… Head of the Curricula and Program Review Committee at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
2009-2019 Member of the Scientific Research Committee
Doctoral School of Law and Political, Administrative and Economic Sciences
2019 -… Head of the Committee which is responsible of the entrance exam to the Research Master and Professional Master; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
2018 – Founder of Center MINE at the Lebanese University “Center for Careers, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, attached to the Rectorate of the Lebanese University
2018 – Founder of 3 Labs for UNICEF GIL program at the Lebanese University (Generations of Innovation Leaders)
Through innovation, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset, the 3 created Laboratories at the Lebanese University (North, Beirut and South) aim to create a generation of young leaders and innovators;
Funded by UNICEF
https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/GIL
2017-2019 Member of the full-time Faculties recruitment committee linked to Lebanese University President; June 2017 till June 2019
2010-2018 Member of the Lebanese University Professors’ League Representative of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Branch III
2016-2017 Member of the Lebanese University Council ; Representative of Professors of the Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration (6 geographical branches) ; (October 2016 – September
2017)
2016-2017 Administrative and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Lebanese University; Reporting to the President ; (October 2016 – September 2017)
2011-2012 “Sustainable Innovation Management” Master Program Founder and Coordinator ; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, carried out in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
2022 -… Focal Point of SAFIR project at the Lebanese University. Supported and co-financed by the European Union, Safir is a project in favor of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the economic inclusion of youth. It is deployed in 9 countries in North Africa and the Middle East (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia).
Safir is based on 3 pillars:
– Support for more than 1,000 young project leaders
– The structuring and development of a regional network of support actors
– The creation of spaces for dialogue between youth and public authorities
Knowing that the Francophone University Agency (AUF) is a member of the consortium of 6 partners of the Safir project whose leader is the French Institute, is in charge of the deployment of the project at the level of higher education and research establishments.
https://www.safir-eu.com
2021 -… Focal Point of the Gender Equality project at the Lebanese University, which allowed the latter to be chosen by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for the constitution of a Consortium of 10 universities around the world wishing to engage their campus concretely and collaboratively in achieving SDG 5.
2020 – … Coordinator of the Sub-Network for Employability at the Mediterranean Universities Union – UNIMED, representing the Lebanese University; the Employability Sub-Network at UNIMED encompasses 31 Universities from 15 different countries on both shores of the Mediterranean.
https://www.uni-med.net/members-subnetworkemployability/
2020 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and INCO.ORG (Paris – France).
2019 – … Representative of the Lebanese University in the Euro- Mediterranean ERASMUS + MORALE project (Capacity building for curricula modernization of Syrian and Lebanese HEIs and lifelong learning provision: towards sustainable NGOs management and operation with special focus on refugees). Funded by the European Commission.
Project reference: 598318-EPP-1-2018-1-LB-EPPKA2-CBHEJP
http://www.moraleproject.org
2019 – … Representative of the Lebanese University in the Euro- Mediterranean ERASMUS + LEBPASS project (The Lebanese Diploma Supplement); Making the skills and qualifications of students and graduates of Lebanese HEIs clearly and easily understood both nationally and internationally.
Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Project reference: 598932-EPP-1-2018-1-LB-EPPKA2-CBHEJP
http://www.lebpass.org
2018 -… Representative of the Lebanese University in the UNIMED sub-network on tourism in the Mediterranean
http://www.uni-med.net/fr/sous-reseautourisme-en-mediterranee/
2018 – … Representative of the Lebanese University in the UNIMED sub-network on Migration
http://www.uni-med.net/en/unimedsubnetwork-on-migration/
2018 – … Representative of the Lebanese University in the UNIMED sub-network on Food and Water
http://www.uni-med.net/fr/sous-reseau-alimentation-et-eau/
2018 – … Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and RDCL WORLD (Gathering of Lebanese Managers and Business Managers in the World)
2018 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and Nudge Lebanon on Economics Behavior
2018 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and Challenge to Change
2016 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport which works under the aegis of the League of Arab Countries
2010 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines Saint-Etienne (France), students and professors exchange, teaching,..
2017 -… Main actor and responsible of the partnership agreement development between the Lebanese University and the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) of Beirut
2017 – … Representative of the Lebanese University in the DEEL project (Development of Student Entrepreneurship in Lebanon) funded by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2017 Innovation Fund, 2017-2 Funding Committee of March 31 2017 and managed by
the Middle East Direcrorate of AUF in partnership with several Lebanese academic, professional and institutional partners and a French partner : PEPITE / France Program (FNEGE). DEEL’s general objective is to strengthen the entrepreneurial and innovation culture in Higher Education in order to promote the emergence of businesses with growth and employment potential. It aims to develop an entrepreneurial culture among students and to provide them with a favorable environment for the creation of businesses through a national student-entrepreneur status allowing them to use university credits for business creation activities, in offering all students courses on entrepreneurship available on a platform accessible to all, and finally by creating a collaborative workspace in which they can find the necessary support and the favorable environment for the creation of their business, and therefore the passage to the entrepreneurial act.
2014 -… Representative of the Lebanese University to the Regional Doctoral Consortium in Economics and Business Administration (CODEG) at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Middle East Directorate
2018-2020 Representative of the Lebanese University in the UNIMED
(Union of Mediterranean Universities) Sub-Network on employability
http://www.uni-med.net/fr/sous-reseau-employabilite/
2016-2018 Representative of the Lebanese University in the Euro- Mediterranean ERASMUS + RESUME (Mediterranean Network for Employability) program Structural international cooperation project led by UNIMED (Union of Mediterranean Universities Union of Mediterranean Universities) in partnership with ministries, associations and universities from Italy, Spain, France, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon. RESUME aims, within the framework of capacity building in the field of higher education, to improve and strengthen their role and potential for the development of employability in the Mediterranean countries of Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon by adopting a spirit transversal enterprise with universities and by strengthening the interaction between universities, companies and political decision-makers.
Funded by the European Commission; Project ID : 561988-EPP-1-2015-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP
2017 – Representative of the Lebanese University in the European TLQAA + project (Toward the Lebanese Quality Assurance Agency –
Program evaluation for transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications) [TLQAA +, 2016-3332 / 001-001] which follows on from the Tempus TLQAA project
International project which aims to work on the following points :
– Capacity building through the training of new assessors / experts
– Review of standards and procedures
– Support higher education establishments in the field of Quality Assurance
– Strengthen cooperation at regional level Funded by the European Commission
Project ID: 573958-EPP-1-2016-1-LB-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP
2014-2015 French Government Scholarship for post-doctoral researches stays (2 months) at the Socio-Economic Institute of Firms and Organizations, Magellan Research Center; Jean Moulin University (Lyon III), France
2011 Member of the Cycle of Higher Studies for Economic Development – Mediterranean (CHEDE
-MED 2011), recruited to represent Lebanon by :
– the Institute of Finance (Ministry of Finance in Lebanon)
– the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Ministry of Finance in Spain)
– the Institute of Finance (Ministry of Economy and Finance in Morocco)
– the Institute of Public Management and Economic Development (Ministry of Finance in France)
– the Scuola Superiore delleconomia e delle finanze (Ministry of Finance in Italy)
2010 Visiting Researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France) Appointed by the French Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment
Academic Credentials:
2016 – Accreditation/Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Business Sciences; Title : « From the financial performance to the sustainable global performance (in french) »; CoSupervision between Jean Moulin University Lyon III and Lebanese University
Lyon III : Socio-Economic Institute of firms and Organizations Lebanese University : Doctoral School for Law and Political, Administrative and Economic Sciences
2006 Ph.D. in Business Sciences ; High Distinction : Very Honourable with Congratulations; Jean Moulin University – Lyon III – France ; Doctoral School : M.I.F. (Management Information Finance)
2001 Research Master in Business Administration ; Specialization : “Finance”; « High Distinction »
1998 Bachelor in Business Administration ; Specialization : “Finance” Saint-Joseph University, Faculty of Business and Management. Rank: First ; Granted the “Class Honor Award”
Professional Qualifications:
2022 -… Expert at AEQES (Agency for the Evaluation of the Quality of Higher Education), an independent public service agency, which practices a formative evaluation of higher education programs organized in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation ; it reports on the quality of higher education and strives for its constant improvement. In doing so, it aims to encourage the development of a culture of quality in institutions, the clarification of teaching profiles and training objectives in connection with the institutions missions, to disseminate good practices and to promote the implementation synergies between higher education stakeholders.
AEQES is part of a European process by referring to the References and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area.
2022 -… Evaluator (Higher Education Country Expert) in the FIBAA accreditation program. The “Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation”, founded in 2002 in Germany, is an international accreditation body to accredit Business Schools and Faculties of Business Administration.
2022 -… External Committee Member in the Business Studies National Assessment Project (Educational Professions Licensure System) at the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates. This EPL System was launched in line with the vision of the UAE in order to develop a knowledge economy and to ensure a high quality of education along with the best standards of education. The Educational Professions License is a requirement for education professionals in the UAE since 2020, it contributes in providing a guarantee of high-performance in the education system, and equips UAE education professionals with a high level of know-how and competence in order to compete globally. https://tls.moe.gov.ae/#!/about
2022 -… External evaluator at the Arab University of Amman in Jordan, whose role is to evaluate the academic records of faculty members and their scientific research in Business Administration Sciences with the aim of promoting them in the academic rank.
2022 -… External evaluator at Northern Technical University in Iraq, whose role is to evaluate the academic records of faculty members and their scientific research in Business Administration Sciences with the aim of promoting them in the academic rank.
2022 – … Member of The Global Entrepreneurship Network. GEN operates an array of programs in 200 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business.
2021 – … Member of Skills Lab Network of Experts European Training Foundation
2018 – … Member of the Board of Directors of the Lebanese National Library (Since April 2018)
2017 – … Expert, Member of the Technical Committee Specialized in
the programs study at the Directorate General of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon. The committee is in charge of assessing the files submitted by the Lebanese private universities in order to open new programs / diplomas in Business Administration and Economics
2018 – … Trainer on participatory learning and innovative teaching methods; International Training Center (ITC) of the International Labor Organization (ILO); February 2018 in Torino, Italy
2020-2022 Member of the Regional Experts Commission Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Middle East Directorate
2014-2018 External Expert in Management Sciences (Researches
evaluator) Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Middle East Directorate
2003 – … Associate Researcher in Management Sciences at ISEOR (Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations), Magellan Researches Center, Jean Moulin University, Lyon III, France
2011 – Trainer at the Ministry of Finance (Lebanon), Institute of Finance (Bassel Fleihan Institute) in Beirut, Responsible for employees raining
2010 – Trainer at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Lebanon); Responsible for employees training
2010 – Project Manager at “Development Services”, Office in charge of “EGS” (Exams Generation System) and “QBS” (Questions Bank System) projects with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Lebanon), financed by the World Bank, for the reorganization of official exams in Lebanon
2008 – Member of the jury responsible for the specialized officers recruitment competition; Beirut Military School – Lebanese Army