







Abdel-Maoula Chaar
Organizational Dynamic, Entrepreneurship, MSMEs Resilience and Sustainability

BIOGRAPHY
Abdel-Maoula Chaar holds a PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in strategic management from the French University Paris-Est. He is a full professor at the African Business School – Rabat where he heads the DBA program. He teaches DBA and master level courses in methodology, management, and
organizational dynamics. His research focuses on management in disruptive contexts, entrepreneurship in its various forms and, MSMEs resilience and sustainability.
Abdel-Maoula was previously the director of the Lebanese ESA Business School center of research (CRED). He was also member of the scientic board of the school, scientic co- director of the DBA and co-director of the “Scenario Factory”; a think-tank which conducts foresight studies on the long-term implications of major societal or economic issues in Lebanon and the Middle East.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCES IN SIMILAR PROGRAMS
Abdel-Maoula Chaar has a broad experience in designing and delivering workshop to a broad range of stakeholders. He is also accustomed to working on sensitive projects and issues as adviser or evaluator.
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
Qinvest, Wildgen, BLOM, Banque Audi, Institut de la Bourse de Tunis, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Merck Sharp & Dohme, CONFREMO, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
UAE, Austria, France, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
FILIATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS




NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
Sustainable transition in post-conict countries: A neo-institutional view of the
Multi-Level Perspective (Climat Change, 2019).
From nancial to economic intermediation: Islamic banking’s unheard message (Finance reconsidered: New perspectives for a responsible and sustainable nance, 2016).
MEPCO (Middle East Paper Company) and CEO Fadi Baaklini: Building a Transnational SME in the Middle East (HEC Montreal Center for Case Studies, 2018)