Lina Maddah is a Senior Economic Researcher at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS). Her areas of work include Urban and Regional Economics, Firm Dynamics, Spatial Economic Analysis, Cultural and Creative Industries, and Local Entrepreneurship Ecosystems. Lina holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at the Lebanese American University. Before joining LCPS, she has worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Venice, Italy; was a visiting researcher at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at UIUC, USA; and an economic researcher at the Department of Economics at URV-Spain.