For nearly twenty years, Ms. Deenah Fakhoury has striven to combine the corporate world and the NGO world, with the firm conviction that collective action and cross-sector partnerships are essential to building a sustainable path for national and global recovery. She has extensive collective and multidisciplinary experience across the corporate, academic, and NGO spheres. Her path began in education, before moving toward the business sector, in distribution and retail. In 2012, she turned to consulting for international NGOs and became a fervent advocate of cross-sector partnerships as an associate consultant for 'Out of The Box' and 'The Partnering Initiative,' and as director of partnerships at the Beirut Marathon Association. Ms. Fakhoury currently holds the role of executive director of the UN Global Compact Network Lebanon (UN GCNL), a network of companies committed to promoting sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Lebanon, and was appointed Middle East representative on the Global Network Council. In 2022, she was named an education champion within the Lebanese chapter of the Malala Fund. Last but not least, she is a professor of luxury marketing and entrepreneurship in the Master's program in marketing and hospitality at the IGE of USJ.