Vincent Martin Battle was the United States ambassador to Lebanon from August 13,2001 to August 16,2004. The Teaneck,New Jersey,native received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and his master's degree (1967) and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1974).
Bassel Fleihan was a Lebanese legislator and minister of economy and trade. He died from injuries sustained when a massive bomb exploded on the Beirut seafront as he passed by in former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri's motorcade on 14 February 2005.
Donald Lewis Kohn is an American economist who served as the 18th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2010. Prior to his term as vice chair,Kohn served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,taking office in 2002. Fed's veteran,he retired after 40 years at the central bank,currently serving on the Financial Policy Committee for the Bank of England and as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Philip Charles Habib was an American career diplomat active from 1949 to 1987.
Richard Henry Jones is an American diplomat and the former Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist,author,think tank entrepreneur,and policy adviser. He has served as assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger within the National Security Council and as assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He was the founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics,until 2006 the Institute for International Economics,which he established in 1981 and led through 2012. In addition to his academic work,he has been an influential public commentator and advisor to the American and global economic policy community,writing for influential periodicals such as Foreign Affairs magazine and by writing numerous books.
Charles Habib Malik was a Lebanese academic,diplomat,philosopher,and politician. He served as the Lebanese representative to the United Nations,the President of the Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations General Assembly,a member of the Lebanese Cabinet,the head of the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigration,as well as being a theologian. He participated in the drafting of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Nasser Saidi is a Lebanese politician and economist who served as the minister of economy and industry and the Vice Governor for the Lebanese central banks for several terms in the last decade of the 20th century.
Jihad Azour (born 4 May 1966) is a Lebanese economist and politician,he served as Lebanon's minister of finance under Fouad Saniora's government from 2005 to 2008. He is a candidate for the 2023 Lebanese presidential elections.
Mohamad Chatah was a Lebanese economist and diplomat.
Farid Abboud is a Lebanese diplomat who served as Lebanese Ambassador to China from June 2013 to December 2017. Before becoming ambassador to China,he was the ambassador to Tunisia from July 2007 to June 2013 and the ambassador to the United States from March 1999 until July 2007.
Hady Amr is an American government official serving as special representative for Palestinian affairs since 22 November 2022. He was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the U.S. Department of State. The new position is a significant upgrade in relations with Palestine. He was appointed to the role under President Joe Biden on January 20,2021. He was born in Lebanon,and has close ties to the region,being praised by both Israeli and Palestinian leaders alike.
Shankar P. Sharma,is a senior Economist and Diplomat who is currently serving as the Ambassador of Nepal to India. He was the Ambassador of Nepal to the United States from 2009-2014. Dr. Sharma served as the Vice-Chairman of the National Planning Commission from 2002 to 2006. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hawaii.
Mustapha Kamel Nabli is a Tunisian economist. He served as Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia from January 2011 until July 2012.
Saeb N. Jaroudi was the former minister of national economy,industry,and tourism in Lebanon and the first chairman of the board and president of the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. He held a number of leadership roles in the Arab world,Europe,and the United States throughout his career.
David Richard Henderson is a Canadian-born American economist and author who moved to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1986,serving on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. A research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution since 1990,he took a teaching position with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,California in 1984,and is now an emeritus professor of economics.
Harald Bernard Malmgren is a scholar,ambassador,and international negotiator who has been senior aide to US Presidents John F. Kennedy,Lyndon B. Johnson,Richard Nixon,and Gerald Ford,and to US Senators Abraham A. Ribicoff and Russell B. Long,United States Senate Committee on Finance. He has acted as an advisor to many foreign leaders and CEOs of financial institutions and corporate businesses and has been a frequent author of articles and papers on global economic,political,and security affairs.
Alice G. Wells is an American diplomat and former Ambassador of the United States of America to Jordan.
Zaki Mazboudi was a Lebanese politician,lawyer and economist. He served as government minister twice and represented the third constituency of Beirut in the Parliament of Lebanon 1972-1992.
Nassif Youssef Hitti is a Lebanese diplomat,academic,professor and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants.
