Ziad Hayek
زياد حايك
President of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals
Assumed office
2018
Vice Chair of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on PPP
Assumed office
2017
Secretary General of the High Council of Privatization and PPP
In office
2006–2019
Personal details
Born (1959-01-27) January 27, 1959
Beit Chabeb, Lebanon
CitizenshipAmerican, British, Lebanese
Political partyIndependent
SpouseSoheila Youssefzadeh
Children
  • Gisèle
  • Daniel
Residence(s)Beirut, Lebanon

Ziad-Alexandre Hayek (Arabic: زياد حايك; born on 27 January 1959) was Secretary General of the Republic of Lebanon's High Council for Privatization and PPP from 2006 until he was nominated to be President of the World Bank in February 2019.[1] The Lebanese Government withdrew Hayek's nomination in March 2019. The Lebanese press reported that Prime Minister Saad Hariri informed the Council of Ministers that the decision to withdraw the nomination was taken due to foreign pressure.[2][3][4][5][6] Hayek is currently Vice Chair of the Bureau of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on PPP,[7] Head of the International Center of Excellence in PPP for Ports,[8][9] President of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals,[10] Member of the Board of Trustees of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik,[11] Member of the Investment Committee of World YMCA,[12] and High Commissioner for Lebanon at the World Business Angels Investment Forum.[13]

A citizen of the US, the UK and Lebanon, Hayek speaks 11 languages. He is fluent in Arabic Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and familiar with Italian, Persian, German, Russian, Hebrew and Aramaic. He has been a resident of Lebanon, Mexico, the US, Bahrain, Gabon and the UK.

In 2014, he was made Officer of the National Order of the Cedar, the highest state order of Lebanon.

Early life and education

Hayek was born in Beit Chabeb, Mount Lebanon. He attended the Collège Mariste Champville and graduated with a Baccalauréat degree in Experimental Sciences. His father, Salah Youssef Hayek, an amateur boxer and actor turned industrialist, and his mother, Essaaf Hanna Hayek, decided to flee Lebanon with their children during one of the fiercest battles of the Lebanese Civil War in 1976. They boarded a boat that took them to Cyprus as refugees. The family later settled in Monterrey, Mexico, where Hayek attended university at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Then, the family emigrated again, this time to Houston, Texas, where Hayek attended the University of Houston. Hayek went on to attend the University of Texas at Dallas and graduated with a master’s degree in International Management.

Hayek also attended the New York Film Academy, where he studied documentary film making. He later collaborated with André Singer on the film “Stairway to Heaven – Rebuilding the Minbar of Saladin”[14] (West Park Pictures, 2009).

Personal life

Hayek has two children with his wife, Soheila Youssefzadeh: Gisèle and Daniel.

Business career

New York

Back at Citibank's head office in New York in 1988, Hayek devised the complex structured finance transactions, leading eventually to debt-for-equity swap in Venezuela and the restructuring and repackaging of the debt of several Latin American countries. Hayek was later promoted to head the International Securitization Department, which developed the securitization of future receivables[15] transactions from credit cards, telecommunications, airline ticket sales, and mineral and oil exports.

Hayek joined Salomon Brothers Inc. in 1992 and while working under Thomas Enders, they established relations with the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa before the fall of the Apartheid regime. He then played a major role in the re-entry of the country in the international capital markets with the first South African equity funds.[16] He also managed the Firm's relationship with clients in Mexico, Algeria and Russia.

Paris and Mexico City

In 1994, Hayek re-joined his Citibank team as Managing Director and Partner in Indosuez Capital Latin America, the partnership they established with Banque Indosuez, Paris. After being named President of Indosuez Mexico, S.A. de C.V. he moved to Mexico and headed the Bank's corporate finance activities and its equity, fixed income, futures and options trading business. He oversaw the Partnership's operations in northern Latin America, advised the Mexican Government on the peso crisis[17] and contributed in the return of Mexican companies[18] to the commercial paper market.

New York and London

Hayek took the position of Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns in New York in 1997 and supervised the Firm's emerging markets’ telecom investment banking business. Aside from managing a large number of bond issues, Hayek led the then-largest IPO for a tech company on the New York Stock Exchange for Prodigy Communications Inc. He followed that with a number of M&A transactions for the Grupo Carso subsidiary and for Spain's Telefónica, S.A. The Firm asked Hayek then to move to London to establish its European investment banking business. There he handled a large number of corporate finance deals, including the bidding for UMTS licenses in Europe for Telefónica, totaling more than US$15 billion. In 2003, Hayek and a group of his Bear Stearns colleagues established Lonbridge Associates Ltd., a boutique investment banking firm specializing in the then-exploding fields of telecom technology and renewable energy. The firm that Hayek was CEO, split into two entities in 2006 following Hayek's departure to join the Lebanese Government under Prime Minister Siniora.

Lebanon

On June 1, 2006, the Council of Ministers of Lebanon appointed Hayek to the quasi ministerial-level position of Secretary General of the HCP. As such, he reported to the Prime Minister and was responsible of managing operations of the Council, which is chaired by the Prime Minister and includes the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Labor and the Minister of Justice.

One month after his return to Lebanon war broke out with Israel. Hayek found himself unexpectedly a member of the very small team, which was leading the country during wartime and which was engaged in international negotiations to achieve a ceasefire. As soon as hostilities ceased in mid-August, PM Siniora tasked Hayek with the responsibility of organizing a donors’ conference in Stockholm, at the invitation of the Swedish Government, to raise funds to help Lebanon recover from the war. The conference became a great success as US$940 million were raised,[19][20][21] in record time, by the end of that same month.

Closing the war chapter, Hayek moved fast to work on privatizing the country's telecom sector,[22] in cooperation with the newly appointed Telecom Regulatory Authority. Although major progress had been achieved on that front and everything was ready to launch the privatization auction[23] by February 2008, the Council of Ministers did not approve the launch fearing that the vacant Presidency of the Republic might affect the auction results. Hayek had also worked on PPP initiatives in the power sector. By end-April 2008, bids were received for the tender to build and operate a smart metering network for the power utility and a tender document was ready for the launch of a tender to build a 500MW IPP power plant in Deir Amaar. The events of 7 May 2008 unfortunately derailed those tenders and the subsequent government refused to let the private sector play a role in the power sector. There were however, two positive outcomes from that period: The first is that the power sector reform plan that Hayek had written in 2008 became the main basis for the Lebanese Government power sector reform paper of 2010,[24] which is still today the country's official policy. The second positive outcome was that the Council of Ministers approved in June 2007 the PPP draft law that Hayek had proposed.

The PPP Law wasn't enacted in the Parliament[25][26][27] until a decade later, in 2017, a period during which Hayek campaigned for its passage[28] by lobbying decision makers, by leading awareness-raising campaigns and by speaking at conferences, workshops, academic, social, political and economic gatherings. When he had first presented his PPP vision, most political parties either did not know what PPP is or were against it. Yet a decade later every major party had adopted PPP as an integral part of its platform.[29] The passage of the PPP Law in 2017[30][31] meant success in setting a new direction for the country's economic future.

Since the PPP Law was enacted,[32][33][34] Hayek participated in the design of Lebanon's Capital Investment Plan and in organizing the Conférence économique pour le développement par les réformes et avec les entreprises (CEDRE),[35] which was held in Paris in April 2018 and which saw the international community pledge US$11.8 billion[36] in concessional financing[37] to help Lebanon build much-needed infrastructure.[38] The HCP team have been entrusted with the execution of a number of projects,[39] including the expansion of the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport,[40] the construction Khladeh-Dbayeh-Oqaibeh toll road,[41] and the establishment of the national data center and the Lebanon Cloud[42]

Although the PPP Law did not require it, Hayek worked hand in hand with civil society in Lebanon[43] and invited a number of civil society organizations to form Transparency and Fairness Civil Society Project Audit Committees to supervise the HCP's activities in tendering PPP projects.[44] The Lebanese Transparency Association is leading this effort under the aegis of Transparency International. Participating NGOs include: ALDIC, LCPS, LIOG, Nahnoo.

References

  1. ↑ "Lebanon nominates Ziad Hayek for World Bank boss" (20 February 2019). The Economist. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "مانشيت- بومبيو للتصدّي لـ"الحزب".. والمرّ يُحذِّر الجميع من سقوط الهيكل". aljoumhouria.com (in Arabic). 27 February 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Kenza OUAZZANI (20 Mars 2019) "Conseil des ministres : Ziad Hayek sur le départ ?" L'orient le Jour. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  4. ↑ David Lawder (5 Mars 2019) "Lebanon withdraws Hayek from World Bank leader race" Reuters.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "Lebanon Withdraws Nomination of Hayek as World Bank President" (6 March 2019). Albawaba Business. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  6. ↑ Michael Igoe (4 Mars 2019) "Lebanon withdraws World Bank nominee under pressure". Devex. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Bureau unece.org
  8. ↑ PPP Forum Geneva 2018 report imvf.org
  9. ↑ "International Center of Excellence in Public Private Partnership for Ports – World Port Sustainability Program". sustainableworldports.org.
  10. ↑ https://wappp.org/index.php/about/meet-the-team/executive-committee
  11. ↑ "Holy Spirit University of Kaslik | Mr. Ziad Hayek". www.usek.edu.lb.
  12. ↑ "Ziad Hayek | Ziad Hayek". 29 June 2022.
  13. ↑ "WBAF announces H.E. Ziad Alexandre Hayek, President of the Association of PPP Units & Professionals and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on PPP, has been appointed as High Commissioner for Lebanon". 26 April 2020.
  14. ↑ Thames & Hudson (2008) "The Minbar of Saladin: Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art" Google Books. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  15. ↑ Suhas Ketkar and Dilip Ratha "DEVELOPMENT FINANCING DURING A CRISIS: SECURITIZATION OF FUTURE RECEIVABLES" World Bank Documents. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  16. ↑ JANINE ARON, JONATHAN LEAPE and LYNNE THOMAS (March 2010) "Foreign Portfolio Investment and Capital Markets in South Africa" CiteSeerX. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  17. ↑ Bill Cormier (3 January 1995) "Crisis in Mexico. Recovery plan proves elusive." The Free Lance-Star. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
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  19. ↑ Patrick Lannin (31 August 2006) "Donors pledge $940 million for Lebanon" ReliefWeb. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  20. ↑ "Donors make huge Lebanon pledge" BBC News (1 September 2006).Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  21. ↑ Faerlie Wilson (1 September 2006) "Stockholm on our minds" Executive Magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  22. ↑ "PERFECTING THE PARTNERSHIP" (2014) The Business Year. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  23. ↑ Osama Habib (10 October 2007) "Auction of Lebanese cellular networks set for February 2008" The Daily Star. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  24. ↑ "Restructuring the Power Sector in Lebanon" The World Bank (15 April 2014).Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  25. ↑ "إطلاق مشاريع بين القطاعين العام والخاص الحريري: متفائل بأن المستقبل سيكون أفضل". Annahar Newspaper (18 May 2018). Retrieved 6 February 2019.
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  34. ↑ "الحريري: 3 مشاريع تتخطى 4 مليار دولار مع القطاع الخاص" Imlebanon.org (17 May 2018). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  35. ↑ Kenza OUAZZANI (6 April 2018) "Tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur CEDRE" L'Orient-Le Jour. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  36. ↑ Kenza OUAZZANI (6 April 2018) "CEDRE : plus de 11 milliards de dollars pour "préserver le trésor qu'est le Liban dans la région" L'Orient-Le Jour. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  37. ↑ "Conférence CEDRE : les prêts et les dons obtenus par le Liban" (6 April 2018).L'Orient-Le Jour. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  38. ↑ Yassmine Alieh (8 March 2018) "Private sector to tap $6 billion in public projects" Businessnews.com.lb. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  39. ↑ S.A. "Une vingtaine de projets proposés au secteur privé" (28 March 2018) Le Commerce du Levant. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  40. ↑ الحريري: توسيع المطار ضروري ومتفائل بالمستقبل Lebanonfiles.com (17 May 2018). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  41. ↑ HARIRI SPONSORS CONTRACT SIGNING BETWEEN HCP AND INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS FOR AIRPORT EXPANSION AND KHALDEH-NAHR IBRAHIM ROAD Archived 2018-07-11 at the Wayback Machine National News Agency (17 May 2018). Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  42. ↑ "PPP : la SFI, la BERD, KPMG et Solon conseilleront le Liban"L'Orient-Le Jour (18 May 2018). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  43. ↑ Thomas Schellen (8 November 2018) "Interview with Ziad Hayek, Secretary General of the High Council of Privatization and PPP" Executive Magazine. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  44. ↑ "Lebanon signs consulting contracts for CIP projects Archived 2019-02-03 at the Wayback Machine" The Daily Star (18 May 2018). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
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