Sami Haddad

Sami Haddad is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Byblos Invest Bank and a Board member of Byblos Bank. He has decades of experience in both the private and public sectors specifically in finance, politics and academia. Mr. Haddad worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, for more than 20 years in a variety of positions including Director of the Middle East and North Africa regions based in Cairo. In 2005 he became Minister of Economy and Trade in Lebanon, a position which he held for three years.

Mr. Haddad holds an MA in Economics from the American University in Beirut. He pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Haddad was born in 1950 and is a Lebanese citizen.