Yassine Jaber
Lebanese politician
Yassine Jaber (Arabic: ياسين جابر) is a Lebanese politician and businessman. He represented the Nabatiyeh district in the Lebanese Parliament from 1996 until 2022. Although an independent that has never been a member of any party, due to the Shiite power sharing structures he is affiliated with the Liberation and Development bloc led by Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri. He is currently serving as the Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Nawaf Salam.
Biography
Jaber was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1951. After graduating with a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut in 1973, Jaber founded a financial company in the capital and worked there until the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.
Jaber spent 1976-1978 abroad, working mainly in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Britain and Los Angeles in the contracting and international trade sectors, and returned to Lebanon to launch real estate, tourism and hotel projects in Beirut. From 1981, he primarily resided in London where he was a member of the Board of Directors of the British-Lebanese Friendship Society and of the Advisory Council of the Arab Community in Britain.
Following the conclusion of the Lebanese Civil War, Jaber returned to Lebanon in 1995 to serve as Minister of Economy and Trade in Rafik Hariri's government.
Appointed Minister of Economy from 1995 to 1998, he was part of the Rafik Hariri Government engaging in the reconstruction of Lebanon.
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