Firas Zayter is a senior development practitioner, programme leader and Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Royal Roads University, Canada, with more than 20 years of professional experience across Lebanon, Canada and the Middle East and North Africa region. His work focuses on social entrepreneurship, the Social and Solidarity Economy, community development, donor-funded programme governance, grants management and impact accountability. At Oxfam, he has coordinated complex European Union-funded programmes and consortia, including initiatives supporting social enterprises, entrepreneurship ecosystems, policy dialogue and community resilience. He has also contributed to the creation of Lebanon’s Social and Solidarity Economy Task Force and to legal framework pathways for social enterprises. Alongside his practitioner work, he has designed learning content on entrepreneurship and social enterprise, including university-oriented engagement with Université Saint-Joseph. His doctoral research examines governance, accountability and artificial intelligence-enabled impact measurement in social-purpose organizations operating in fragile contexts.