Ms. Wafaa El Baba is a Team Lead Economist at AI Economic Pulse think tank. She has previously served as junior economist at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). She works on development and labor economics with a focus on the middle class in Arab countries and global development challenges.  Her research work extends to women’s economic participation, skills-mismatch, and applied microeconometrics. She has a Master of Arts in Applied Economics from the Lebanese American University.