Kristof Kleemann & Benoît Barthelmess

Short vita

Kristof Kleemann is head of the FNF Beirut Office since March 2020. Previously, he worked at the German Chancellery in Berlin in the directorate for European affairs and as Chief of Staff of Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a liberal Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the European Parliament.

Benoît Barthelmess is an economist who co-founded in 2019 the think tank Le Club Européen, a centrist forum for progressive and innovative ideas for the future of Europe and partner of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Contributions

MENAPOL Blog

23.06.2020 Kristof Kleemann & Benoît Barthelmess

Why Europe should care about Lebanese Start-Ups

Due to the debt and political crisis that has been further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, large parts of Lebanon’s burgeoning knowledge economy are facing extinction. Preventing the country’s most promising growth sector’s demise is in Europe’s strategic interest and offers opportunities for effective aid in a complex and highly politicised context.

Kristof Kleemann & Benoît Barthelmess

Short vita

Contributions

Why Europe should care about Lebanese Start-Ups