Ziad Alexandre Hayek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ziad Alexandre Hayek

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1959

Place of Birth: Beit Chabab, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ziad Alexandre Hayek (Arabic: ???? ????; born on 27 January 1959) was Secretary General of the Republic of Lebanon's High Council for Privatization and PPP from 2006 until 2019, when he was nominated to the World Bank President in February.
Due to political pressure on his government, Hayek decided to proceed further with his nomination and resigned from his position at HCP and kept hoping for another channel to echo his “bridge” view for the World Bank strategy.
He is currently Vice Chair of the Bureau of the United Nations Working Party on PPP and Co-President of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals. Before moving back to Lebanon in June 2006, Hayek was President of Banque Indosuez Mexico, S.A.; Vice President at Salomon Brothers in charge of investment banking for northern Latin America (New York); and Vice President of Citibank, NA (New York). Hayek has two children with his wife, Soheila Youssefzadeh: Gisèle and Daniel and in 2014, he was made Officer of the National Order of the Cedar, the highest state order of Lebanon. A citizen of the US, the UK and Lebanon, Hayek speaks 10 languages, other than his mother tongue Arabic, among which he is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and familiar with the other six: Italian, Persian, German, Russian, Hebrew and Aramaic and he was resident of Lebanon, Mexico, the US, Bahrain, Gabon and the UK.