Lamia Moubayed Bissat

Lamia Moubayed Bissat (born March 27, 1967) is a Lebanese public servant.

Lamia Moubayed Bissat
BornMarch 27, 1967
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityLebanese
OccupationPresident of Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan

She has been serving as President of the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan since 2000.[1] In 2018, the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration selected Lamia Moubayed Bissat among the 24 experts to guide members of CEPA on the agenda of 2030.[2]

Early life and education

Lamia Moubayed Bissat was born on March 27, 1967, in Beirut, Lebanon. Most of Moubayed's childhood was marked by the Lebanese Civil War, which she considers as one of the factors that shaped her professional life.[3]

Moubayed graduated with an engineering degree in agriculture in 1988 and received her master's degree in Agricultural Economics and Development from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1990. In 1991, Moubayed co-founded Green line, the first non-governmental organization (NGO) in Lebanon addressing environmental and agricultural development.[4]

In 1998, she joined l'Ecole Supérieure des Affaires in Beirut to pursue a master's in business administration (MBA)[4].

Career

Moubayed began her career in 1992, as a researcher for the Consultation and Research Institute in Lebanon (CRI), a firm specialized in business consultation and quantitative and qualitative field studies regarding social and economic development in Lebanon and the MENA region.[4] In 1995, Lamia Moubayed joined the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Beirut as a program officer.[4] In July 1999, Lamia Moubayed joined the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)[5].

In 2000, the French Ministry of Economy and Finance selected and appointed Lamia Moubayed Bissat to become head and director of the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan in Lebanon.[6] Moubayed led its transition from a bilateral initiative to a financially and administratively autonomous public service agency within the Lebanese Ministry of Finance. The institute is today a provider of knowledge in public financial management and state modernization in Lebanon and the MENA region.[1] Lamia Moubayed lectures public management at the Institute of Political Sciences of Université Saint Joseph in Beirut (Sciences-Po).[7]

On 1 January 2018, Lamia Moubayed was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a four-year term to serve as one of the twenty-four experts composing UNCEPA.[8] Moubayed is also a fervent supporter of enhancing capacity building in the public procurement unit.[9] In 2020, she took part in the launch of the 2020 United Nations E-Government Survey organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which includes an in-depth presentation of the E-government survey data and results.[10][11]

Moubayed Bissat is a founding and a secretariat member through the Institute of Finance, of the GIFT-MENA network of civil service training schools in the Middle East and North Africa, established in 2006 and currently based in Beirut.[12][13][14] She also contributed to founding the MENAPAR network of research in public administration, currently based in Bahrain.[15]

Lamia Moubayed inaugurated a public library that includes more than twenty-three thousand references accessible to the public and initiated a series of citizen guides to increase awareness on public financial management issues and facilitate citizen transactions entitled "Fiscal and Financial Awareness Series".[16][17]

In an interview with Le Commerce du Levant, Lamia Moubayed highlighted that "stating that the responsibility to conduct or shape public governmental action is only restrained in the hands of the state and its bureaucracies has become obsolete. Today, civil society organizations and the private sector are equally accountable and involved in the process".[18]

Moubayed is a strong proponent of gender equality and strives for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. In an interview with Executive Magazine, she explained that "it is important to understand that feminism coupled with empowering women does not come at the expense of men. Indeed, both are eminently required and recommended in order to produce an adequate outcome in a public institution".[19]

Memberships

Starting in 2016, Moubayed became the representative of Lebanon and MENA countries on the board of the “International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA):[20]

  • Founding member – Green line, 1991 – Present.[5]
  • Member – American University of Beirut (AUB) Alumni Association, 1996 – Present.[4]
  • Member – Engineers and Architects Syndicate, 1996 – Present.[4]
  • Member – Network for Innovators in Governance in the Mediterranean Region (INNOVMED), 2003 – Present.[21]
  • Chair – Governance of Public Finance component of OECD-MENA initiative, 2009 – Present.[22]
  • Founding member – Roads for Life "The Talal Kassem Fund for Post-Accident Care", 2011 – Present.[23]
  • Member – World Bank Group Regional Committee of Experts on Public Procurement, April 2013 – Present.[5]

Awards and recognition

Publications

  • "L'Institut des Finances, 20 ans de cooperation administrative franco-libanaise", L. Moubayed.[27]
  • "Un réseau des écoles de la fonction publique en méditérranée peut-il servir l'agenda de la gouvernance publique?", L. Moubayed.[28]
  • “L’avenir de l’Action Publique: Regards croisées autour de la méditerranée”, L. Moubayed, V. Potier & AB. Yakhlef.[29]
  • “From Government to Governance: How Will the Arab Region Meet the Goals of Sustainable Development in the Post 2015 Period?”.[30]
  • “Building capacities in public financial management in a post-conflict country: A practice from the Ministry of Finance and the Institute of Finance of Lebanon”, I. Ghandour, S. Hatem, L. Moubayed Bissat & C. Rihan.[31]
  • “Lebanon’s Experiment with Installing Competitive Recruitment”, L. Moubayed Bissat, S. Hatem & C. Rihan.[32]
  • “Why Civil Service Reform is Inevitable in Times of Crisis”, L. Moubayed Bissat.[33]
  • “Introducing a Gender-Driven Approach to Performance Budgeting: Austria”, L. Moubayed Bissat & M. Bsaibes.[34]
  • “Measuring the Public Sector Wage Bill”, L. Moubayed Bissat & I. Ghandour.[35]
  • "The role of civil society in Rural Community Development: Two case studies from Lebanon”.[36]
  • “Rural Community Development through Strengthening Institution Building: Two Case Studies from Lebanon”.[37]
  • "Citizen Budget 2018", Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan.[38]
  • "Citizen Budget 2019", Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan.[39]
  • "Citizen Budget 2020", Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan.[40]
  • "The Economic Cost of Policy Action against the Outbreak Scenarios of Covid-19 in Lebanon", Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan.[41]
  • "The economic and fiscal policies in the Era of Riad El Solh", Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan.[42]
  • "L'approche par competences peut-elle changer l’avenir de la Fonction Publique Libanaise?"[43]

References

  1. "About the Institute". IOF. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  2. "CEPA members 2018 - 2021". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Public Institutions. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  3. "Me, Myself & Politics" unveils the untold story of Mrs. Lamia Moubayed Bissat, retrieved 2019-12-09
  4. "Lamia Moubayed Bissat | Who is She in Lebanon". whoisshe.lau.edu.lb. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  5. "Lamia Moubayed Bissat". CSR Lebanon. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  6. "حديث المالية - عدد 8". IOF. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  7. "[Site de l'Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth] - Institut des Sciences Politiques". isp.usj.edu.lb. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  8. Bissat, Lamia Moubayed (12 September 2019). "Lamia Moubayed Bissat, Author at Executive Magazine". Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  9. "Business News > Story > StoryDetails". www.businessnews.com.lb. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  10. Eren, Yusuf (July 8, 2020). "Global launch of the 2020 UN E-Government Survey". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  11. "Lamia Moubayed Bissat Keynote Address: Remarks on Findings of E-government Survey". IOF. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  12. "GIFT-MENA | Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan - GIFT-MENA SECRETARIAT". gift-mena.org. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  13. GIFT-MENA, GIFT-MENA (July 2014). "THE GIFT-MENA NETWORK OF CIVIL SERVICE TRAINING SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES" (PDF). gift-mena.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-12-11. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  14. "Lamia Moubayed Bissat - SOBEIRUT". SOBEIRUT. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  15. United Nations Public Service Award, United Nations Public Administration Network (24–26 June 2019). "Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Effective Delivery of Services. Innovative transformation and accountable institutions" (PDF). workspace.unpan.org. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  16. "e-Library OPAC". library.institutdesfinances.gov.lb. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  17. "حقك في الاعتراض- سلسلة التوعية المالية والضريبية - رقم 7". مجموعة الابحاث والتدريب للعمل التنموي (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  18. "Lamia Moubayed Bissat au service de la fonction publique - Mélanie Razzouk". Commerce du Levant (in French). 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  19. "Lamia Moubayed: At society's service | Executive Magazine". 2015-03-13. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  20. "iasia web site". www.iias-iisa.org. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  21. "Innovator's Network Members - Programme for Innovation in Public Administration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region - Innovmed -". www.unpan.org. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  22. "Governance - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development". OECD. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  23. "Roads For Life | Our Members". Roads For Life – the Talal Kassem Fund for Post Accident Care. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  24. Henoud, Carla (2017-05-11). "Lamia Moubayed Bissat, " désespérément déterminée " - Carla Henoud". L'Orient-Le Jour (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  25. l'Information, Agence Nationale de. "Cérémonie de remise des insignes de la Légion d'Honneur à la Résidence des Pins". Agence Nationale de l'Information. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  26. "Lamia Mubayed Bsat's pioneering career". WEEPortal. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  27. Moubayed, Lamia. "L'Institut des Finances, 20 ans de cooperation administrative franco-libanaise". Gestion et Finances Publiques.
  28. "GIFT-MENA | Un réseau des écoles de la fonction publique en Méditérranée peut-il servir l'agenda de la gouvernance publique?". www.gift-mena.org. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  29. Moubayed, Potier and Ben Yakhlef, Lamia, Vincent and Adel (September 26, 2016). L'avenir de l'action publique: Regards croisés autour de la méditerranée. France: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA FONCTION PUBLIQUE TERRITORIALE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. Moubayed, Lamia (March 20, 2015). "From Government to Governance: How Will the Arab Region Meet the Goals of Sustainable Development in the Post 2015 Period?" (PDF). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia via ESCWA.
  31. Moubayed, Ghandour, Hatem, Rihan, Lamia, Ibrahim, Sabine, Carl (June 2014). "Building Capacities in Public Financial Management in a Post-Conflict Country: A practice from the Ministry of Finance and the Institute of Finance of Lebanon" (PDF). Institut des Finances - Ministry of Finance Lebanon: 39.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  32. Moubayed, Hatem, Rihan, Lamia, Sabine, Carl (October 2013). "Lebanon's Experiment with Installing Competitive Recruitment". Assadissa: 48.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  33. Moubayed, Lamia (October 2013). "Why Civil Service Reform in an Inevitable Choice in times of crisis". Assadissa: Journal of Public Finance and State Building: 9.
  34. Moubayed and Bsaibes, Lamia and Maya (December 2012). "Introducing a Gender-Driven Approach to Performance Budgeting: Austria (Written in Arabic)". Assadissa: Journal of Public Finance and State Building: 8.
  35. Moubayed, Lamia (December 2011). "Measuring the Public Sector Wage Bill" (PDF). Assadissa: Journal of Public Finance and State Building: 8.
  36. Moubayed, Lamia (June 2002). "The Role of Civil Society in Rural Community Development: Two Case Studies from Lebanon". ESCWA: 25. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.115.2356.
  37. Moubayed, Lamia (1999). "Rural community development through strengthening institution building : two case studies from Lebanon". Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
  38. "Citizen Budget 2018". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  39. "Citizen Budget 2019". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  40. "Citizen Budget 2020". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  41. "The Economic Cost of Policy Action against the Outbreak Scenarios of Covid-19 in Lebanon". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  42. "الرؤية الاقتصادية والمالية في عهد دولة الرئيس رياض الصلح". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  43. "L'approche par compétences peut-elle modifier l'avenir de la fonction publique libanaise?". IOF. Retrieved 2020-10-07.

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