Jennifer CHALLITA MOUALLEM (EL)

Assistant Professor

أستاذ محاضر
كُلِّيّة العُلوم الاقْتِصاديّة

+961 (1) 421 000 jennifer.challitamouallemel@usj.edu.lb

I am an Assistant Professor at Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), where I joined the Faculty of Economics in September 2026 and teach microeconomics and macroeconomics in the new English-language program. I hold a PhD in Business Sciences, specializing in Economics, from the Lebanese University, and have 12 years of university teaching experience across introductory, intermediate and advanced microeconomics and macroeconomics, as well as econometrics. I have also contributed to academic program development and curriculum design, and have supervised bachelor projects and theses. Before joining USJ, I worked as an Economic Advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Finance in Canada, which informs my teaching with practical policy experience. My research applies econometrics and machine learning to economic questions in the MENA region, with a focus on Lebanon: monetary policy, business cycles, banking and financial stability, and household behavior in crisis. My articles have appeared in the Journal of Risk Finance, Arab Economic and Business Journal, International Journal of Economics and Business Research and Management Studies and Economic Systems. I am also the author of Lebanese Monetary Policy Perspective (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)