Our independent consultants are senior-level point experts with reputable professional skills to assess, design and customize tools that can be retained for short, middle and long-term projects.
Constituted of qualified and experienced people in their fields of specialization, they enjoy a high caliber expertise to provide you with outstanding insights, information, and outcomes and offer you the appropriate solutions to meet your organizational challenges.
This group is formed of members from diverse backgrounds and experiences who share a common goal: to help you solve problems so that your organization can grow, prosper, succeed, and deliver results that create lasting improvements.
* LDN is constantly expanding to include additional experts and services.
Guita Hourani
Disciplines: Migration, Woman & Urban Development
Ms. Guita Hourani is currently the Associate Director of the LebaneseEmigrationResearchCenter at Notre DameUniversity and a member of the University's Research Board. Among other responsibilities, Ms. Hourani set up the research policy of the Center, leads research projects, represents the Center locally, regionally, and internationally, and provides views on migration issues to governmental and non-governmental institutions. She was one of the experts on migration for the Maronite Patriarchal Synod (2003-2005). She appears on national and international media outlet as an expert on Lebanese migration.
Ms. Hourani has taught and was an Advisor to the Vice President for International Academic Relations at the Holy Spirit University, Lebanon. She worked as an International Development Consultant to the World Bank and several other organizations in Washington, D.C. She is the Founder and Elected Chairperson of the Maronite Research Institute in Washington, DC. She served as the Editor of the electronic publication, Journal of Maronite Studies. She was a Fellow at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research Center at the Catholic University of America. She pioneered a course on the role of women in war, peace and conflict resolution and taught it at several universities and institutions in the USA. She developed a training course and lead workshops on how to collect, preserve, and write about family migration and genealogy. She has a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning and another in History.
Ms. Hourani has presented papers in several international conferences in Italy, Tunis, and Mexico. Two of her papers are available on the Internet [http://www.ism.unisi.ch/forummigrazioni06.pdf]and [http://www.carim.org/Publications/200512-CARIM-TunisSem.pdf]. She has participated in the preparation of a document entitled Absentee Voting Survey: Laws and Practices a White Paper Working towards an Absentee Voting Law for Lebanon. The document was presented to the National Committee which is reviewing the current electoral laws in Lebanon.
Ms. Hourani has been conducting research on Lebanese migrants' remittances and human and social transfers and their impact on Lebanon and on the historiography of how the Lebanese became legally "white".
Professor Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Ph.D.
Disciplines: Social Policy, Human Rights & Gender
Dr. Sensenig-Dabbous is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NDU and an Adjunct Associate Researcher at LERC. He has lectured at several universities in Europe and the USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Austria with a dissertation entitled "Die neue Rolle der Gewerkschaften in der Aussenpolitik des staatsmonopolistischen Kapitalismus, Am Beispiel der Beziehungen des AFL und des CIO zum OeGB zwischen 1945 und 1950," (The New Role of Trade Unions in the Foreign Policy of State Monopoly Capitalism, The Example of the Relationship of the AFL and CIO to the OeGB between 1945 and 1950). He was a research fellow at the "Research Group Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social and Cultural History/Karl Steinocher Foundation for Labour History" and at GenderLink Network for Social Research OEG/Diversity Centre e.V in Austria. Dr. Sensenig has over 60 academic publications in the fields of social policy, Alpine mining, migration, and gender; and over 30 articles and reports in non-academic (e.g. NGOs, trade unions, artistic journals). He has published two books and his third will come out in the coming year with the title "Das Ausland im Inland, Zur Geschichte der Auslanderbeschaftigung und Auslanderintegration in Österreich: Fremde, Zwangsarbeiter, Gastarbeiter, Fluchtlinge, Linz: Institut fur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Universitat Linz," (Comprehensive Report on 150 Years of Migration to Austria from 1848 to 1998).
Dr. Sensenig-Dabbous is currently writing a handbook on absentee voting.
Sana Nasr
Disciplines: Media & Communication
Mrs. Nasr started off in showbiz with her easy charm early after she has received her BA in Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University - LAU and began treading the boards making her stage debut at Tele Liban. In 2002, after many years of successful appearances, she joined the LBC and presented 'Tea Time', her most popular contribution as a presenter. Whilst at channel she made a sustained attempt and became much loved and prevalent where her humor and unique style have not gone unnoticed with 'The Lebanese Lottery Show'. In 2007, and shortly later in the run, she got her best bet and had the opportunity to showcase her talents and joined the line-up of presenters through the national entertainment show 'Albi Dalili', the spring TV hit under the famous Director Simon Asmar. Radio has always been a passion for her. Her skills, together with a clean-cut image, were enough in 2004 to get her high exposure on Radio Strike. In 2008, her long time experience in writing TV and Radio programs, Drama theatre and some music brought enthusiastic energy to a wide segment of the Lebanese audience of her 'Morning Show' on Melody FM while her career highlight brought her back to school for a Masters degree in Cinema and TV at the Saint Spirit University in Kaslik - USEK. In addition to the various activities she had, Mrs. Nasr has also ventured the advertising scene and made regular appearances on commercials airing nationally and regionally for a series of well-known brands. Furthermore, she has been a shining guest as well as a Master of Ceremony of a big number of local and regional events, conferences and seminars. Her natural inclination to social service led her to join LDN - The Lebanese Development Network as Media and Communication consultant and to practice some volunteering activities with the 'Youth Anti Drugs' and Jbeil dispensary. Mrs. Nasr is married to Omar Nasr and they have 2 lovely daughters, Lea and Lynn.
Joseph Hallit, MD - MBA
Disciplines: Health, Community Care & Human Rights
Dr. Hallit is currently the Chief of Department of the Primary Health Care Section at the YMCA - the Young Men Christian Association in Beirut as well as at AJEM - Association for Justice and Mercy. In 2004, he received an MBA in health from IAE of Paris (University of Paris 1 Pantheon, Sorbonne) and a Diploma in Codification of Informational Health from USJ - Saint Joseph University after he accomplished his medical school in 1992 from Damascus University. Between 2003 and 2007, he followed a series of professional private health sessions in Primary Health Care and Emergency Health Preparedness with the WHO - World Health Organization. Dr. Hallit is a member of the National Committee for Drugs, the National Primary Health Care Committee, the National Mental Health Committee, the Network on Harm Reduction for the MENA region and the National School Health Committee, and a lecturer in Primary Health Care on topics related to Diabetes, Lipids, Obesity, Hypertension, Cardiovascular diseases and Emergency. In 2000, Dr. Hallit joined Amnesty International and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon after he spent over eight years in the Syrian prisons. In the months since his release, he has turned himself into a human-rights activist urging society to allow the reintegration of ex-prisoners and a regular volunteer at Lebanese prisons tending to the sick.
Saiid Saber
Disciplines: Business Development, Operations Management & Supply Chain Consulting
Saiid Saber is a well-qualified Business Consultant and Trainer with over nine years of expertise across the Middle East region. His professional experience is diversified from Business Development and Operations Management to Strategy and Supply Chain Consulting for some of the largest corporations in the region. He is a young executive with high professional standards gained from working at leading organizations including the American University of Beirut, Emirates Airlines Group and Webb Consulting, in addition to work missions and career practices extended over numerous countries including Brazil, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Equipped with an MBA from the American University of Beirut, and certified from Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS Gulf) as an ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor for Quality Management Systems, Saiid has greatly enhanced his technical knowledge in administering business operations as well as advising on various Performance Improvement and Business Process Reengineering projects. As a trainer, Saiid’s training skills were shaped by his academic teaching experience at AUB and have been further enriched through conducting various business trainings during project implementations as well as organizing professional workshops in collaboration with eminent organizations including ELCIM (Euro-Lebanese Centre for Industrial Modernisation) and QUALEB (The EU Quality Programme).
Guita Hourani
Professor Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Ph.D.
Sana Nasr
Saiid Saber