IRMA MAJDALANI Nationality: Lebanese Email: irmamajdalani@gmail.com Date of birth: 16.03.1957 EXPERIENCE Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Lebanon • Quality Expert, member of the Quality Insurance Unit – Since 2022 • Member of the academic commission since 2012 • Member of the programs commission since 2012 • Director of the Insurance Institute – 2016 to 2022 • Delegate of the University Rector for ECTS affairs – 2011 to 2016 • Dean of the Economics Department – 2008 to 2011 • Vice Dean of the Economics Department – 1996 to 2008 • Coordinator of the Programs Reform, Faculty of Business Management – 1986 to 1994 European Commission • Expert for project evaluation Erasmus (Tempus and capacity building) - Since 2010 Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education • Member of the committee in charge of reviewing Economics curriculum in schools – Since 2024 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Lebanon, since 1982 • Professor of Economics – Since 2017 • Associate Professor – From 2012 to 2017 • Lecturer – From 1982 Gave classes in various departments such as Economics, Business, Insurance and Translation. Courses (mainly): Economic policy, Public economics, Public finance, Microeconomics. École de Commerce de Reims, France, 2006 • Economy of the Arab World OTHER Lebanese Ministry of Finance • In charge of a training program for Public schools’ economics teachers in partnership with the Finance Institute attached to the Ministry of Finance [Training of trainers] – 2010 to 2013 • In charge of a training program for the Ministry of Finance’s staff in Public Finance – 1998 • Contributor to a training program for the Ministry of Finance’s staff in Macroeconomics -1997 EDUCATION M.A in Economics, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 1980 Higher diploma in Economics, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 1994 PhD in Economics, Very honorable, with committee praise Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis – France - January 2012 LIFELONG EDUCATION Course in higher studies for development in the Mediterranean, (Cycle des Hautes Études pour le Développement de la Méditerranée- Ched-Med), Euro mediterranean finance inter-ministries project – 2014 to 2015 LANGUAGES Full professional proficiency in English, French and Arabic RESEARCH INTEREST • Higher Education • Bologna Process (wrote the ECTS Guide for USJ) • E-learning: participated to a Euro-Mediterranean project (2003-2006) and implemented the results in the Economics department (USJ) • Good governance, integrity, anti-corruption: Participated to many workshops with TIRI (Beirut, Amman), Arab anti-corruption organization (Beirut), NATO (Shrivenham-UK) • Women empowering: many workshops • Public Economics • Social capital: Survey conducted in Lebanon (1334 questionnaires) in 2007 used in my PhD thesis. PUBLICATION AND CONFERENCES • The economic context of women’s economic activity in the Arab world. Beirut University College, 1988. (in french) • Economic aspects of the cultural exception AUPELF-UREF, réseau Culture, Langue, Développement. Beyrouth, 1996. (co-author) (in french) • Less developed countries and the WTO : what’s in it for Lebanon ?, Actes du Colloque CEDREC-CEDROMA, Editions Brulant, 2001 (in french) • Needs in competencies and training for ICT in Mediterranean countries: a survey, EBEL conference, PSUT, Amman, 2005 (in english) • Assessment of the economic projects aiming to empower women in Lebanon, Arab women organization, 2005 (in arabic) • Social capital, an economic gene pool. The Lebanese case. PhD thesis, 2012