IRMA MAJDALANINationality: Lebanese Email: irmamajdalani@gmail.com Date of birth: 16.03.1957EXPERIENCEUniversité 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 1994European 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 2024TEACHING EXPERIENCEUniversité Saint Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Lebanon, since 1982• Professor of Economics – Since 2017• Associate Professor – From 2012 to 2017• Lecturer – From 1982Gave 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 WorldOTHERLebanese 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 -1997EDUCATIONM.A in Economics, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 1980Higher diploma in Economics, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 1994PhD in Economics, Very honorable, with committee praise Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis – France - January 2012LIFELONG EDUCATIONCourse 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 2015LANGUAGESFull professional proficiency in English, French and ArabicRESEARCH 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