Gaelle Abi Khalil is a Nonresident Fellow at TIMEP focusing on reconstruction and security governance in Lebanon. Her mandate is dedicated to informing the policy discourse on reconstruction in Lebanon through a holistic analysis that is informed by questions of state-building and security and that is driven by the voices of those impacted. Gaelle is a policy researcher specializing in governance, state-society relations, and security policy in Lebanon and the Middle East. She has over eight years of professional experience working on governance, public and security sector reform, and policy research in Lebanon and the MENA region. Her commentary and analysis on Lebanon’s political and security landscape have appeared in local and regional media platforms. Gaelle holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, as well as a Master's degree in Comparative Politics and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, both from Saint Joseph University of Beirut.