Ghada Kalakesh is a professional academic and administrator with over 12 years of varied work experience including in academia, aviation, insurance and IT. She is a full-time faculty member in Business Management and International Business Management at the Lebanese International University (LIU). Kalakesh also has experience as a former life insurance manager at Libano Suise insurance, and a former Senior Commercial and Aero political manager at the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO). 

Ghada acquired her PhD with high distinction at the Ecole Superieure De Commerce (ESC) at Manouba University in Tunisia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut, and a Master’s in Business Management from Lebanese International University.