Raoul Nehme (Arabic: راوول نعمة; born January 20, 1956) served as the Lebanese minister of economy and trade from 2020 to 2021.
Nehme went to school at Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour and studied in France at the Ecole Polytechnique (engineering with a major in economics) and Mines ParisTech (engineering with a major in scientific management).
He has experience handling several establishments in crisis: Nehme is the president and co-founder of NGO Jouzour Lebanon[3] (meaning "roots of Lebanon"), an environmental NGO dedicated to reforestation.
Nehme's nomination as minister of economy came as Lebanon was experiencing a double political and economic crisis that resulted in a default[4] on March 9, 2020.
As minister of economy, Nehme introduced measures to protect the consumer by limiting abusive price increases,[5] banning the exportation of critical medical equipment[6] and implementing measures to mitigate the propagation of the SARS-CoV-2.