Director General (Permanent Secretary) of the Ministry of Finance since 2000. He is also member of the board of the central bank of Lebanon, and a member of the Higher Banking committee, and a founding member of the Capital Markets Authority. He is the alternate governor of Lebanon at the World Bank, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Arab Bank for Agriculture Development. He has been chairman of the Group of 24 (G24) for three times, and chairman of the financial committee for the Arab heads of state and francophone heads of state. He was a professor of finance and strategic management at Saint-Joseph University and la Sagesse University. He studied mathematics and physics at Louis-le-Grand, graduated as a physicist engineer from Ecole Superieure d’Optique, before graduating from HEC Paris with a major in Finance. He will defend his doctoral thesis in Economics at Paris I la Sorbonne in the coming months. He has been decorated with the awards of Commandeur de l’Ordre du Cedre and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
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