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Trust welcomes new board member: Alia Moubayed

London, 24 November 2017– Alia Moubayed is the most recent addition to the Alexandria Trust's Board of Trustees.

Alia is Director of the Geo-economics and Strategy Programme (GESP) at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Before IISS, Alia worked as Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa region at Barclays Bank in London. She joined Barclays from the World Bank where she worked for six years as a Senior Economist.

Before that, she held policy responsibilities in various economic institutions of the Government of Lebanon.

Alia holds a BA in economics and an MBA from the American University of Beirut. She also holds a Master's equivalent in Public Policy and Public Administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in France.