Haneen El Sayed is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and an accomplished economic development professional with over 25 years at the World Bank, where she led reform programs, strategic engagements, and policy dialogues across the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and Europe. Her expertise spans social protection, labor, education, poverty, gender, fragility, and conflict, including leading the World Bank’s response to the 2011 Syrian conflict and efforts to establish a universal social protection system in Lebanon following its financial collapse. She has served on the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, taught at universities in New York City, and worked at Morgan Stanley, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. A graduate of Stanford and Columbia Universities with executive training from Harvard, Sayed is a board member of LIFE (Lebanese International Finance Executives), Nafda, and the Center for Lebanese Studies, and is dedicated to preserving Lebanon’s human capital and fostering sustainable development.