ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: TEDxBeirut – Gilbert Doumit – Political Entrepreneurship

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Gilbert Doumit
Managing Partner — BRD/I Group
Entrepreneur, consultant and civil society activist

Gilbert is an entrepreneur, management consultant, reformist, and a civil society activist with a vision to influence the Arab World towards more innovative, inclusive and participatory governance systems and communities.

Gilbert is a founder and Managing Partner of BRD/I Group; an Arab social business assisting government institutions, political parties, civil society and international organizations in policy innovation, management reform and leadership development.

Gilbert has left his mark on a number of reform issues including education, elections, youth policies, women empowerment, decentralization, and illicit wealth reform in the last decade…

He is also a founding member of Injaz — Lebanon, Nahwa el Muwatiniya, Khalass! Anti-civil war campaign, and the Lebanese Network for Access to information. In the same spirit of his vision, Gilbert is the founder or a founding member of many associations, NGOs, or groups: Beyond Consulting and Training, Injaz Lebanon, Nahwa Al-Muwatiniya.

In 2009, Gilbert was the General Coordinator of the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections Monitoring Operation.

A Founding Partner and a Management Consultant at Beyond Consulting and Training, Gilbert facilitates the organizational and cultural development of local and multinational companies throughout Lebanon and the Middle East. Beyond is a sister company of Effiqual/Designed Learning Canada. (www.beyondct.com).
Gilbert holds a BS. in Business Administration, a BA. in Social Community Organization and an MBA from ESA. He is a 2008 Yale World Fellow and a member of the Yale Arab Alumni.

He has been a presenter at a number of conferences with the Yale University, World Bank, ESCWA, UNESCO, Aspen Institute, BRISMES, European University Institute and universities around the world. Gilbert has also designed Lebanon’s first university course on “Active Citizenship” and “Social Entrepreneurship.”

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