is the former Chief Economist and Strategist of the Dubai International Financial Centre, and the founder & former CEO of the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance & the Mudara Institute of Directors. He has served as Minister of Economy and Trade and Minister of Industry of Lebanon, and the First Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for two mandates. He is now the President of Nasser Saidi & Associates and Chair of the MENA Clean Energy Business Council, a member of the IMF’s Regional Advisory Group for MENA, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).