Hossein Cheaito

Hossein Cheaito is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Hossein holds an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut. He is an alumnus of the Joint UK Chevening-Said Foundation scholarship program. He is also part of the International Association for Feminist Economics and a member of its MENA committee.

Prior to coming to Geneva, Hossein was also a nonresident fellow in Development Economics at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), a Washington-based policy think tank. In this role, he conducted in-depth research on economic development and crisis responses in the MENA region, producing analyses on fiscal policy, debt justice, austerity, social protection, and (queer) political economy. At The Policy Initiative, a Beirut-based think tank, Hossein also worked across the fields of local public finance, economic development, and labor economics, where he helped construct Lebanon’s first local economic growth diagnostics framework.

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