Youssef Fawaz
Executive Director, Al Majmoua
Youssef Fawaz is Executive Director of the Lebanese microfinance institution Al Majmoua. He joined Al Majmoua as a founding board member in 1996 and became Executive Director in 2004. Youssef was a founding member of Sanabel, the regional microfinance network for the Arab world, and served two two-year terms as Chairman of the Board in 2008 and 2015. Youssef holds a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and is also a lecturer at the faculty of engineering at the American University of Beirut, where he has taught since 2001.