Yasser Akkaoui

Strategy Partner

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Tel. Lebanon : +(961) 3 499 889

 

 

Yasser Akkaoui, is the founder of KConcept Holding, the mother company of Capital Concept, PrimeJob, NewsMedia and the Center for Strategic Studies.Yasser Akkaoui has become one of the reference names in Corporate Governance activism in the Middle East.

He also contributed to the development of several codes that deal with corporate governance of companies in Lebanon and the region that played the role of connector between the IFC, CIPE and the Middle East market as well as they rely on his expertise.

Yasser Akkaoui also created PrimeJob, a headhunting agency working alongside some of the biggest companies around the Middle East. Across this work, his overlying interest has been in the area of sustainable development, and the effects of foreign direct investment and technology/human resources transfer to attain such development. This is especially important in the Middle East, to ensure that Foreign Direct Investment attains its desired goals over the medium/long term.

Yasser Akkaoui represents the interests of EXECUTIVE Magazine Middle East’s most respected economic and trade publication since 2001. He strives to ensure that EXECUTIVE continues to be the leading business publication in the region, reaching the highest level of journalistic integrity.

Yasser Akkaoui is the Vice Chairman of Young Arab Leader, and is also a Management and Entrepreneurship instructor at The American University of Beirut.