Saadeh Al Shami
Saadeh Al Shami | |
|---|---|
Al Shami in 2022 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon | |
| In office 10 September 2021 – 8 February 2025 | |
| President | Michel Aoun Joseph Aoun |
| Prime Minister | Najib Mikati |
| Preceded by | Zeina Akar |
| Succeeded by | Tarek Mitri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 April 1954 |
| Party | Syrian Social Nationalist Party (former) |
| Cabinet | Third Cabinet of Najib Mikati |
Saadeh Al Shami (Arabic: سعادة الشامي; born 14 April 1954) is a Lebanese economist, academic and politician who served as the deputy prime minister of Lebanon in the cabinet led by Najib Mikati from 2021 to 2025.
Biography
Al Shami hails from a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family.[1][2] He was born on 14 April 1954.[3]
From 1987 to 1993 Al Shami was the head of the graduate school of business at the American University of Beirut.[4] He worked at the Lebanese premiership and the finance ministry as a head of the reform commission between 2005 and 2006.[4] Then from 2008 to 2013 he worked at the International Monetary Fund in different positions, including the assistant to the director of the Middle East and Central Asia department.[5] Al Shami also served as the head of Capital Markets Authority in Lebanon between 2013 and 2017.[5] In 2018 he began to work as the group chief economist at the National Bank of Kuwait.[4]
He was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.[6] In the proposed cabinet by Saad Hariri in July 2021 Al Shami was named as the minister of economy, but the cabinet was not approved by the Lebanese Parliament.[6] He was appointed deputy prime minister of Lebanon in the cabinet formed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati on 10 September 2021.[6]
In April 2022 Shami announced that the Banque du Liban, central bank of Lebanon, went bankrupt: "The state has gone bankrupt as did the Banque du Liban, and the loss has occurred, and we will seek to reduce losses for the people."[7]
References
- ^ "Lebanon crisis: Draft line-up that Hariri presented to Aoun". Ya Libnan. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ^ "Announcement of the Lebanese government headed by Mikati". middleeast.in-24.com. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ^ "Saadeh Al Shami". Wizarati. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Husseine Yassine (11 September 2021). "Who Is Saadeh Al-Shami, Lebanon's New Deputy Prime Minister". The 961. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Lebanon's new Cabinet". The National News. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Learn about the cabinet lineup proposed by Saad Hariri". Prime Time Zone. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Lebanon's central bank not bankrupt, governor says". Reuters. Beirut. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.