Robert Fadel

Robert Fadel also worked in the Lebanese private sector, serving as Chairman & CEO of the ABC Group from 2009 to 2017, the leading shopping center and retail company in Lebanon (www.abc.com.lb), of which he remains a member of the board of directors.

Before that, Mr. Fadel was an independent member of the Lebanese Parliament part of the March 14 coalition (2009-2016). He resigned in 2016 to protest against the lack of reforms, rampant corruption and the absence of sectarian diversity in the newly elected municipal council of his city, Tripoli. He made history by being the first MP to resign since the country’s independence.

Robert Fadel is also the co-author of “Regards sur la France” (Seuil 2007).

Mr. Fadel is also the founder and President of Bader NGO (2006-2016) a non-governmental organisation which main focus was to promote entrepreneurship in Lebanon and reduce brain drain.

Robert and his wife Hala are also active philanthropists. Hala set up in 2005 the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition (www.mitarabcompetition.com), which is one of the biggest Business Plan Competition in the world with thousands of Arab startups participating every year from 20 Arab countries.

Fadel holds a master degree in finance and economics from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a post-graduate degree in Public Administration from ENA, the National School of Administration. Mr. Fadel chaired the School's Global Alumni Association in 2000, he also helped to establish an ENA school in Lebanon.

Robert Fadel (born in Tripoli, Lebanon, on 12 January 1970) is a Lebanese politician and retail business executive. He is the son of the late MP Maurice Fadel.