Kamal Chakaroun is an analyst on the World Bank’s Doing Business team, currently working on the Dealing with Construction Permits indicator. He formerly worked with the non-profit organization AMAR U.S as a Programs Associate, managing livelihood programs in Iraq, and with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) as a Deputy Finance Coordinator in the Central African Republic and as an Administration Manager in Niger. Previous to that, he worked as an Investment Advisor at the Arab Finance Corporation in Lebanon. He holds a MA degree in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, in addition to a MA in Financial Assets Management and a BA in Business Administration from Saint Joseph University in Beirut.