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Ziad Ghandour is an Analyst with the Market Competition topic of the Business Ready unit. He joined the team in May 2023. Prior to that, he was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal and worked as an Economist at the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) in Lisbon. Ziad received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minho in 2022 where he managed to publish all three chapters in well-known peer-reviewed international journals before defending his doctoral thesis entitled “Quality Competition in Regulated Markets”. In addition to his academic achievements, Ziad served as a Data Analyst and Internal Auditor at Unitech-IKK Group for a span of nine years. He also holds a Master of Arts in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a Bachelor of Science from the Lebanese American University. He speaks Arabic and Portuguese.