Abdallah Bou Habib

Abdallah Rashid Bou Habib (Arabic: عبد الله رشيد بوحبيب; born 21 November 1941) is a Lebanese economist, author, and diplomat who is serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since September 2021.

[citation needed] In 1976, Bou Habib joined the World Bank Group where he served as an Economist and later as Senior Loan Officer until 1983.

[citation needed] Bou Habib has written two books: America's Values and Interest/ A Half Century of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 2019 (Arabic) and Al Daou' Al Assar, US policy Towards Lebanon, a record of Bou Habib's seven years as Lebanon's Ambassador to the US, 1991 (Arabic).

His Ph.D. dissertation: The Long-Run Supply of Crude Oil in the United States (Vanderbilt University, 1975) was published by Arno Press, NY, 1979.

[citation needed] From 2007 to 2015, Bou Habib founded and directed the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon, a non-partisan Beirut-based think-tank dedicated to the advancement of a balanced and realistic understanding of major global, regional and domestic issues affecting Lebanon.