Hossein Cheaito is a former Nonresident Fellow at TIMEP focusing on governance and economic development in Lebanon. He is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where his research focuses on the intersections of debt, gender, and sexuality in Lebanon. He holds an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut. He is an alumnus of the Chevening–Saïd Foundation scholarship program and a member of the MENA Committee of the International Association for Feminist Economics. At The Policy Initiative in Beirut, he worked on local public finance, labor, and regional development, contributing to Lebanon’s first local economic growth diagnostics framework. He also co-led research on Lebanon’s gig economy with the University of Oxford’s Fairwork project. As a consultant with the Arab Watch Coalition, he has monitored and analyzed the policies of international financial institutions—particularly the IMF and World Bank—focusing on their social and economic impacts across the MENA region. Hossein also led Lebanon’s first comprehensive study on the socio-economic impact of LGBTQ+ discrimination, conducted in partnership with Helem, the region’s first LGBTQ+ rights organization.