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BEIRUT — Appointed to the Ministry of Economy and Trade in February, Amer Bisat, a former IMF economist and senior executive at global asset manager BlackRock, returned to Lebanon after four decades abroad, and was one of the many new faces tasked with implementing Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s comprehensive reform agenda.This comes as the country continues to grapple with the compounded challenges of an unresolved five-year economic and financial crisis, the collapse of both private sector activity and public institutions and services, as well as the economic toll of the recent Hezbollah-Israel war, estimated at $11 billion by the World Bank as of March.In an exclusive interview with L’Orient Today, Bisat discussed Lebanon’s prospects for emerging from the crisis; from its growth potential to the structural reforms the consumer market...
BEIRUT — Appointed to the Ministry of Economy and Trade in February, Amer Bisat, a former IMF economist and senior executive at global asset manager BlackRock, returned to Lebanon after four decades abroad, and was one of the many new faces tasked with implementing Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s comprehensive reform agenda.This comes as the country continues to grapple with the compounded challenges of an unresolved five-year economic and financial crisis, the collapse of both private sector activity and public institutions and services, as well as the economic toll of the recent Hezbollah-Israel war, estimated at $11 billion by the World Bank as of March.In an exclusive interview with L’Orient Today, Bisat discussed Lebanon’s prospects for emerging from the crisis; from its growth potential to the structural reforms the consumer...