Impact and diplomacy

Institutions listen to organised expertise. They do not listen to sentiment, and they should not.

Lubnan convenes senior Lebanese practitioners in finance, law, energy, health, infrastructure and public administration to produce evidenced positions on the questions that determine whether Lebanon can be invested in, worked in, and returned to. We publish that work under the names of the people who wrote it. We submit it to the institutions it concerns. We do not shout.

What we take positions on

Institutional and judicial reform, banking resolution and depositor treatment, investment and property conditions for non-resident Lebanese, mobility and consular access, recognition of the diaspora in Lebanese law, the terms on which capital can responsibly return.

What we do not do

Endorse candidates or parties, take positions on confessional questions, align with any faction, speak for any government.

Positions

Each position is one page: the question, the position, the reasoning, the evidence, and the named authors. Dated and versioned.

March 2026, v2

On depositor treatment in banking resolution

January 2026, v1

On property acquisition by non-resident Lebanese

November 2025, v1

On consular capacity and diaspora registration

Papers

Research and briefs, downloadable and properly cited. This is the institution's intellectual output and the reason officials and journalists visit the site.

Brief, 34pp

Remittances, judgement and the missing vehicle

Paper, 62pp

Counting the dispersed: a method for the register

Advocacy

Direct engagement with public officials is conducted by a separately constituted entity, registered in each jurisdiction where registration is required, funded transparently, and reporting publicly.