Biography

Bassel Malaeb is a senior public-policy advisor based in the Middle East. For over a decade, he has advised GCC governments, state-owned enterprises, and sovereign wealth funds on national strategies, regulatory and institutional reform across food security, agriculture, water and environmental sustainability. He holds a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Growing up in Lebanon, he experienced first-hand the ramifications of several geopolitical milestones in the region, which turned geopolitics from a subject into a lasting preoccupation. He is passionate about history and philosophy, and fluent in English and Arabic.

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