Hassan AYOUB

Lecturer

مدرّس
كُلِّيّة العُلوم الاقْتِصاديّة

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A University Professor at the Lebanese University, he served for four years as head of the economics department and co-director of the professional master's programs at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management (Branch I - Hadat). He is qualified for the functions of senior lecturer by the National Council of Universities (CNU), section 05 (Economic Sciences), for the 2023 campaign in France. He will defend his Accreditation to Direct Research (HDR) at the University of Toulon in December 2026. A Doctor of Economic Sciences from Nice Sophia Antipolis University, he also holds a DEA (equivalent to a research master's) in macro-dynamics and the financing of economies, as well as a DESS (equivalent to a professional master's) in industrial-development engineering, both obtained at the same university. He has taught at several higher-education institutions in France (Nice Sophia Antipolis University, IUT de Nice, Lille 1 and Lille 2 Universities, SKEMA Business School, EDHEC Business School, ESPEME, ESC Lille, ESDHEM, IPAG, and PRAXIS), in Belgium (Catholic University of Louvain), and in Lebanon (CNAM Lebanon, American University of Science and Technology - AUST, Antonine University, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - USEK, and the Islamic University of Lebanon). His research focuses on the macroeconomic issues of the MENA-region countries, notably economic growth, public debt, governance, the attractiveness of territories, exchange-rate crises, as well as issues related to development financing, in particular microfinance and green and sustainable finance. He is the author of several scientific articles and book chapters published in Arabic, English, and French in international scientific journals and works. A sworn financial and banking expert with the courts, he regularly serves as a trainer internationally. He also represents the Lebanese University on the Cost-of-Living Committee at the Lebanese Ministry of Labor. He is a member of the Maghtech network (France), where he is in charge of Maghreb-Machrek relations, as well as of the CEMAFI International association (France). He was also a member of the Third World Association (ATM, France) and the French Economic Science Association (AFSE, France). His teaching mainly covers microeconomics, macroeconomics and macroeconomic modeling, applied mathematics, quantitative methods applied to economics and management, econometrics, international finance, financial markets, development financing, international economics, the economics of the MENA-region countries, monetary policies, as well as research methodology. In the framework of continuing education, his interventions mainly concern financial mathematics, the mechanisms of public debt, and Total Quality Management (TQM).