About
An economist of the everyday crisis
Senior Economist, Labor Market Analyst, Policy Advisor & Academic Researcher — based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Dr. Nizar Hariri is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics (Faculté de sciences économiques) of Saint Joseph University of Beirut, and Director and Lead Researcher of OURSE — the Observatoire Universitaire de la Réalité Socio-Économique — where he leads Research Axis 3 on poverty, inequality and social justice.
Alongside his academic work he serves as Senior Advisor and Labour Market Analyst at the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan, attached to Lebanon’s Ministry of Finance, bringing survey evidence into fiscal policy, social protection and labor diagnostics.
His research spans labor and precariousness, the economics of cultural and creative industries, poverty and access to public goods, and social capital in the Arab world. He holds a fellowship with the Chaire sur les Environnements Urbains (IFPO & AFD) and is a core investigator of the French National Research Agency’s ANR PRECAR programme.
Research philosophy
His work starts from the household: what people earn, how they get water and electricity, who they lean on when wages collapse. Large representative surveys are paired with attention to social theory — the thread that runs back to his doctoral thesis on poverty and social interactions.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, 2007
Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), France
“Pauvreté et interactions dans la théorie sociale”
Advanced degrees in economics, quantitative methods and social science research methodologies.
Languages
- ArabicNative
- FrenchFluent
- EnglishFluent
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics (FSE)
Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ)
Faculté de sciences économiques — teaching labor economics, econometrics, inequality and MENA development; supervising Master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations.
Director & Lead Researcher
OURSE — USJ
Observatoire Universitaire de la Réalité Socio-Économique (University Observatory on Social and Economic Reality). Director of Research Axis 3: Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.
Senior Advisor & Labour Market Analyst
Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan (IOF) / Ministry of Finance, Lebanon
Fiscal policy, social protection data, national labor diagnostics and public sector workforce trends.
Fellow, Chaire sur les Environnements Urbains
IFPO & AFD
Institut Français du Proche-Orient and Agence Française de Développement — urban environments, public goods and social infrastructure.
Core Investigator
ANR PRECAR (ANR / IREMAM / IFPO / USJ)
Scientific committee member and lead quantitative investigator of the national survey on labor, mobilities and property rights.