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Raed H. Charafeddine
First Vice-Governor, Banque du Liban
Biographical Information
February 2010
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Raed H. Charafeddine
is the First Vice-Governor of the Banque du Liban, Lebanon’s Central
Bank, since April 2009. He is the Alternate Governor of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) for Lebanon. Mr.
Charafeddine chairs the Islamic Banking Regulatory Committee and is a member of
the Bank’s Central Council (Board), the Open Market Committee, and the
Investment Committee. He also oversees several departments, namely:
Mr. Charafeddine is a member in the Steering Committee
and Co-Chair of the Advisory and Technical Committees of the Islamic Financial
Risk Management program (IFRM)[1].
He is also the Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Islamic Finance
Qualification (IFQ)[2]
and a Jury panelist in the "Lebanese Excellence Award."
Prior to assuming his current
responsibility, Mr. Charafeddine had an extensive banking experience of almost
20 years. He held senior positions, including Deputy General Manager, Regional
Manager, and Branch Manager in leading commercial banks namely Fransabank and
Byblos Bank in Lebanon as
well as Mashreqbank in Dubai,
U.A.E.
As a life long activist in
the civil society, Mr. Charafeddine served as a Board Member in several NGOs
dealing with the Social Justice, Local Community Development as well as
Organizational and Human Development.
Mr. Charafeddine was a
visiting lecturer at several universities in
Lebanon
(including American University of Beirut, Lebanese American
University, Hariri Canadian
University) where he
taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Strategic Management, Leadership,
and Leading Change. He also trained senior staff in many corporations,
educational institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations and
had several contributions in national and international forums on the issues of
quality, conflict management, peace building, interfaith dialogue, personal and
group development.
Mr.
Charafeddine holds Masters and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration from
the University of North Carolina,
USA.
[1]
A joint initiative between Banque Du Liban and the Global
Association for Risk Professionals (GARP)
[2]
A joint initiative between Banque
Du Liban, the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) -
London and Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) - Beirut.
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