Abdallah Bou Habib
{{Short description|Lebanese politician (born 1941)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Visit of Abdallah Bou Habib to the European Commission - P062433-927303 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Bou Habib in 2023
| office = Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants
| term_start = 10 September 2021
| term_end = 8 February 2025
| president =
| primeminister = Najib Mikati
| predecessor = Zeina Akar (interim)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|11|21}}
| birth_place = Jdeide, Lebanon
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| party = Independent
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| alma_mater = American University of Beirut
Vanderbilt University
| native_name_lang = ar
| native_name = {{nobold|عبد الله بوحبيب}}
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Abdallah Rashid BouHabib ({{langx|ar|عبد الله رشيد بوحبيب}}; born 21 November 1941) is a Lebanese economist, author, and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from September 10, 2021 until February 8, 2025.{{Cite web|url=http://m.naharnet.com/stories/en/283970-line-up-of-najib-miqati-s-government-announced|title=Line-Up of Najib Mikati's Government Announced|accessdate=11 September 2021|website=m.naharnet.com}}
He previously served as Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon (2001–2005) and as Lebanon's Ambassador to the United States (1983–1990).
Early life and education
Bou Habib was born in Jdeide, Lebanon. He is a graduate of Brummana High School (1960) and the American University of Beirut where he received his bachelor's degree in Economics (1967) and his master's degree in Economics (c. 1970). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1975. At Vanderbilt University Department of Economics he taught as Assistant Professor (1975–1976) and as Senior Teaching Fellow (1973–1975). He served as Lecturer at Notre Dame University, Lebanon (2002–2003) and at La Sagesse University, Lebanon (2003–2015).{{Cn|date=April 2024}}
Career
In 1976, Bou Habib joined the World Bank Group where he served as an Economist and later as Senior Loan Officer until 1983. After serving as Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States, he rejoined the World Bank in 1992 and served as Senior Adviser to the Vice President of the MENA Region & Regional External Affairs Unit Chief, MENA Region until retirement in 2001.{{Cn|date=April 2024}}
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). Over the past thirty years, he has published several articles about Lebanon in regional and international dailies. 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.{{Cn|date=April 2024}}
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.{{Cn|date=April 2024}}
Personal life
Bou Habib is married to Julia Seabrook Cole and together they have three children and six grandchildren.{{Cn|date=April 2024}}
References
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Category:American University of Beirut alumni
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Category:Academic staff of Notre Dame University–Louaize
Category:Academic staff of Université La Sagesse
Category:Foreign ministers of Lebanon
Category:Deputy prime ministers of Lebanon
Category:Ambassadors of Lebanon to the United States
Category:People from Baalbek District
Category:21st-century Lebanese politicians
Category:21st-century Lebanese diplomats
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