Carl Rihan lectures in international security and modern Middle East history at SciencesPo Lille as well as history at the Ecole Jeannine Manuel in Marcq-en-Baroeul. He is also undertaking a visiting fellowship at the Institute of Middle East Studies of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg). Carl has more than twelve years of experience in the fields of State-building and socioeconomic analysis, having served as reseach associate to the vice-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts in Public Administration as well as programme coordinator and researcher on public policy at the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan (Beirut). He has previously taught at the International College (Beirut) and lectured at the Lebanese American University, the Saint-Joseph University, SciencesPo Paris, the Technical University of Monterrey, and has written and co-written dozens of articles, reports, and policy notes on socioeconomic development in the Middle East and North Africa region, including the roadmap on Implementing Agenda 2030 in the Arab Region: Contextualization, Action Areas, and Policy Planning (2019). He holds a BA and an MA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut, a PhD in History from SciencesPo Paris.

1. Principles of International Security

2. Modern Middle East History

• since 09/2022: Lecturer in International Security and Middle East History at SciencesPo Lille

• since 03/2022: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies and Member of GIGA Research Programme 1

• since 2021: Lecturer, Saint-Joseph University – Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights Global Campus

• since 2021: Social Studies Instructor, Ecole Jeannine Manuel – Lille

• since 2021: Research Associate to the Co-Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration

• 2019 - 2021: Lecturer, Lebanese American University

• 2018 - 2021: Research Associate to Member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration

• 2015 - 2016: Research Affiliate, American University of Beirut – Center for Arab and Middle East Studies

• 2015 - 2021: Social Studies Instructor, International College - Beirut

• 2014: Consultant, Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

• 2013 - 2018: Research Affiliate, SciencesPo Department of History

• 2010 - 2021: Programme Coordinator, Department of Research and Publications, Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan

Ph.D., History, SciencesPo Paris, 2018

MA, Political Studies, American University of Beirut, 2013

BA, Political Studies, American University of Beirut, 2008