MENA Open Data & Evidence Lab
People

A small active research network with separated production and review roles.

The Lab currently reports 4–6 active researchers/contributors and 2–3 external methods reviewers. Public profiles are listed only where identity, role and attribution are cleared for disclosure; aggregate institutional totals may therefore exceed the number of named profiles on this page.

Active researchers / contributors4–6Current institutional total.
External methods reviewers2–3Independent review roles.
Accepted external contribution1Externally contributed dataset or accepted research contribution.
Research Director1Named public leadership.

Research leadership

Current public leadership and institutional research responsibility.

Active

Layan Oraidi

Founder & Research Director

Research areas: economic evidence systems, data provenance, reproducibility, public-data infrastructure, labour/technology evidence and market/economic measurement.

GitHubContact
Research identifiers

GitHub

layan985

Verified public code identity used by current Lab repositories.

ORCID / Google Scholar

Not currently entered in the Lab's public people registry.

The site will not manufacture an identifier or link an unverified profile.

Current responsibilities

Institutional strategy, research direction, production oversight and release administration. Governance separates production from independent verification so founder checks are not counted as external review.

Researchers & contributors

4–6 active contributors/researchers are currently associated with Lab work.

4–6 active

Contributor network

Contributor records connect to actual research objects, data, code, review work or accepted research contributions. Where identity or affiliation is not publicly cleared, the institutional count is shown without manufacturing a public biography.

External methods reviewers

2–3 external methods reviewers are currently reported at institution level.

2–3 external reviewers

Independent methods review capacity

Reviewers are separate from the primary production role. Release-level pages identify a reviewer only where the specific review artifact and attribution can be disclosed.

Profile standard

A full person profile may contain name, role, research areas, bio, education or affiliations, selected research, datasets, software, projects, publications, events, ORCID, GitHub, Scholar and contact—but only where each field is accurate and public.

Researcher ID rule

ORCID, Google Scholar, GitHub and other persistent researcher identifiers are linked only after the identity is verified. Missing identifiers remain explicitly unlisted rather than being guessed from similar names.

Disclosure rule

The institutional metrics ledger may report aggregate people counts even when individual identities are confidential or not yet cleared for publication. Aggregate totals never imply a named person performed a specific review unless the corresponding release-level record says so.

Canonical institutional totals: data/institutional-metrics.json · acknowledgements: data/acknowledgements.json