Zeina El Helou was elected to serve as the Secretary General of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections for a two-year term (March 2016 – March 2018). She has worked at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies between 2006 and 2010, and currently associated with LCPS as a Senior Researcher. She sat as Lebanese representative on the Radicalization Advisory Group of the Third Way Institute, Jordan in 2010; produced two research papers on radicalization in Lebanon. In 2015, Zeina El Helou has established a private research company, Ra’i for Research and Development. She has established and ran the first public policy focus group center in Lebanon in 2006, at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. She is Holder of a master’s degree in journalism from Université Assas – Paris II in conjunction with the Lebanese University, In addition to master’s degree in political science from Saint-Joseph University.