Bassam Yammine (; born 1968) is a Lebanese economist and former CEO of Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia.

Early life and education

Yammine was born into a

Maronite Maronites (; ) are a Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant (particularly Lebanon) whose members belong to the Maronite Church. The largest concentration has traditionally re ...

family. He obtained bachelor of arts and master's degrees from

Loyola Marymount University Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California. LMU enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it the largest Catholic university on the west coast of the ...

. Then he received an MBA degree in finance from

the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, near the shore of Lake Michigan about fr ...

in 1994.

Career

Yammine began his career as deputy chairman of Li Venture Sal, the first venture capital firm in Lebanon, from 1995 to 2004. He later served as an advisor at the ministry of health from 1997 to 2000 in Lebanon. He was appointed minister of industry to the cabinet led by then prime minister

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in 2005. Next, Yammine founded Audi Saudi Arabia, one of the largest banking groups in Lebanon. In September 2007, Yammine began to work at

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as a managing director and co-chief executive officer of the Middle East and also, the head of the Investment Banking and Asset Management businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He became the CEO of Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed one of the two co-heads for Credit Suisse's investment banking operations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In October 2012, Yammine resigned from the Credit Suisse and left the bank in December 2012. During his term at the Credit Suisse, he was one of the key figures. Since 2013, Yammine has started his own business, Excelsa, with offices in Lebanon, Algeria, and the United States.

References

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