Dr. Patrick Mardini is the CEO of the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies – LIMS. He collaborates with a team of experts at LIMS on designing economic reforms dedicated for Lebanon, raising awareness about their importance, and advocating for their adoption. LIMS covers a wide array of issues including subsidies, banking crisis, hyperinflation, fiscal policy, electricity, competition and doing business. Dr. Mardini is also a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Paris Dauphine University. His past experience includes 4 years at Paris Investment Management company Modèles et Stratégies and 10 years of finance professor at the University of Balamand.