Ministry of Economy and Trade (Lebanon)
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Ministry of Economy and Trade (MOET; Arabic: وزارة الأقتصاد والتجارة)[1] is a governmental ministry of Lebanon, headquartered on the 5th floor of the Azarieh Building in Beirut.[2]
Since 10 September 2021, the ministry has been led by Amin Salam as Minister of Economy and Trade.
List of Economy and Trade ministers
[edit]No.[a] | MOET | Prime Minister | Term of office | |
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1 | Adel Osseiran | Riad Al Solh | 25 Sep 1943 | 02 Jul 1944 |
2 | Riad Al Solh[b][c] | 03 Jul 1944 | 09 Jan 1945 | |
3 | Jamil Talhouk[b] | Abdul Karami | 09 Jan 1945 | 22 Aug 1945 |
4 | Sami as-Solh[b][d] | Sami as-Solh | 22 Aug 1945 | 22 May 1946 |
5 | Saadi Al Munla | Saadi Al Munla | 22 May 1946 | 14 Dec 1946 |
6 | Kamal Jumblat | Riad Solh | 14 Dec 1946 | 07 Jun 1947 |
7 | Sleiman Nawfal | 07 Jun 1947 | 26 Jul 1948 | |
8 | Philippe Takla[b][e] | 26 Jul 1948 | 01 Oct 1949 | |
9 | Philippe Takla | 01 Oct 1949 | 14 Feb 1951 | |
10 | Boulos Fayyad[f] | Hussein Al Oweini | 14 Feb 1951 | 07 Jun 1951 |
11 | Philippe Takla[g] | Abdallah Yafi | 07 Jun 1951 | 11 Feb 1952 |
12 | Sleiman Al Ali | Sami as-Solh | 11 Feb 1952 | 09 Sep 1952 |
13 | Basil Trad[h][f] | Nazem Akkari | 09 Sep 1952 | 14 Sep 1952 |
Saeb Salam | 14 Sep 1952 | 18 Sep 1952 | ||
14 | Basil Trad[g][h] | Fuad Chehab | 18 Sep 1952 | 30 Sep 1952 |
15 | George Hakim[g] | Khaled Shehab | 30 Sep 1952 | 30 Apr 1953 |
16 | George Hakim[i] | Saeb Salam | 30 Apr 1953 | 16 Aug 1953 |
17 | Rashid Karami | Abdallah Yafi | 16 Aug 1953 | 01 Mar 1954 |
18 | 01 Mar 1954 | 16 Sep 1954 | ||
19 | Sami as-Solh | 16 Sep 1954 | 09 Jul 1955 | |
20 | 09 Jul 1955 | 19 Sep 1955 | ||
21 | Nazih Al Bizri | Rashid Karami | 19 Sep 1955 | 19 Mar 1956 |
22 | George Hakim[j] | Abdallah Yafi | 19 Mar 1956 | 08 Jun 1956 |
23 | George Karam[g] | 09 Jun 1956 | 18 Nov 1956 | |
24 | Nasri Maalouf[g] | Sami as-Solh | 18 Nov 1956 | 18 Aug 1957 |
25 | Kazem al-Khalil | 18 Aug 1957 | 14 Mar 1958 | |
26 | Kazem al-Khalil[b][k] | 14 Mar 1958 | 24 Sep 1958 | |
27 | Charles Helou[h] | 24 Sep 1958 | 14 Oct 1958 | |
28 | Philippe Takla[f] | Rashid Karami | 14 Oct 1958 | 14 May 1960 |
29 | Philippe Takla[l] | Ahmad Daouk | 14 May 1960 | 01 Aug 1960 |
30 | Sleiman Al Ali | Saeb Salam | 01 Aug 1960 | 20 May 1961 |
31 | Philippe Boulos[f] | 20 May 1961 | 31 Oct 1961 | |
32 | Rafic Naja | Rashid Karami | 31 Oct 1961 | 20 Feb 1964 |
33 | Fouad Ammoun | Hussein Al Oweini | 20 Feb 1964 | 25 Sep 1964 |
34 | Joseph Najjar | 25 Sep 1964 | 18 Nov 1964 | |
35 | Bahij Takieddine | 18 Nov 1964 | 25 Jul 1965 | |
36 | Rafic Naja | Rashid Karami | 25 Jul 1965 | 09 Apr 1966 |
37 | Sobhi Mahmassani[m] | Abdallah Yafi | 09 Apr 1966 | 06 Dec 1966 |
38 | Said Hamadeh | Rashid Karami | 06 Dec 1966 | 08 Feb 1968 |
39 | Edward Honein | Abdallah Yafi | 08 Feb 1968 | 12 Oct 1968 |
40 | Nasri Maalouf[n] | 12 Oct 1968 | 20 Oct 1968 | |
41 | Hussein Al Oweini | 20 Oct 1968 | 15 Jan 1969 | |
42 | Nassim Majdalani | Rashid Karami | 15 Jan 1969 | 25 Nov 1969 |
43 | Suleiman Frangieh[o] / Nassim Majdalani[i] |
25 Nov 1969 | 13 Oct 1970 | |
44 | Saeb Jaroudi | Saeb Salam | 13 Oct 1970 | 27 May 1972 |
45 | Anwar Al Sabbah | 27 May 1972 | 25 Apr 1973 | |
46 | Bahij Tabbara[p][q] | Amin Hafez | 25 Apr 1973 | 08 Jul 1973 |
47 | Nazih Al Bizri | Takieddine Solh | 08 Jul 1973 | 30 Oct 1974 |
48 | Abbas Khalaf | Rachid Solh | 31 Oct 1974 | 22 May 1975 |
49 | Fawzi Al Khatib[r] | Nureddine Rifai | 22 May 1975 | 01 Jul 1975 |
50 | Adel Osseiran / George Skaff[s] |
Rashid Karami | 01 Jul 1975 | 09 Dec 1976 |
51 | Selim al-Hoss | Selim al-Hoss | 09 Dec 1976 | 16 Jul 1979 |
52 | Talal El Merhebi | 16 Jul 1979 | 25 Oct 1980 | |
53 | Khaled Jumblat | Shafik Wazzan | 25 Oct 1980 | 08 Oct 1982 |
54 | Ibrahim Halawi[t] | 08 Oct 1982 | 29 Apr 1984 | |
55 | Victor Kassir[u] | Rashid Karami | 30 Apr 1984 | 22 Sep 1988 |
56 | Issam Abu Jamra[e] | Michel Aoun | 22 Sep 1988 | 25 Nov 1989 |
57 | Nazih Al Bizri[p] | Selim al-Hoss | 25 Nov 1989 | 23 Dec 1990 |
58 | Marwan Hamadeh | Omar Karami | 24 Dec 1990 | 15 May 1992 |
59 | Samir Makdasi | Rashid al-Solh | 16 May 1992 | 30 Oct 1992 |
60 | Hagop Yarwant Demerjian | Rafic Hariri | 31 Oct 1992 | 25 May 1995 |
61 | Yassine Jaber | 25 May 1995 | 07 Nov 1996 | |
62 | 07 Nov 1996 | 24 Dec 1998 | ||
63 | Nasser Saidi | Selim al-Hoss | 24 Dec 1998 | 23 Oct 2000 |
64 | Bassel Fleihan | Rafic Hariri | 23 Oct 2000 | 17 Apr 2003 |
65 | Marwan Hamadeh | 17 Apr 2003 | 21 Oct 2004 | |
66 | Adnan Kassar | Omar Karami | 26 Oct 2004 | 19 Apr 2005 |
67 | Damianos Kattar[g] | Najib Mikati | 19 Apr 2005 | 19 Jul 2005 |
68 | Sami Haddad | Fouad Siniora | 19 Jul 2005 | 21 Jul 2008 |
69 | Mohammad Safadi | 22 Jul 2008 | 09 Nov 2009 | |
70 | Saad Hariri | 10 Nov 2009 | 13 Jun 2011 | |
71 | Nicolas Nahas | Najib Mikati | 13 Jun 2011 | 15 Feb 2014 |
72 | Alain Hakim | Tammam Salam | 15 Feb 2014 | 18 Dec 2016 |
73 | Raed Khoury | Saad Hariri | 18 Dec 2016 | 31 Jan 2019 |
74 | Monsour Bteish | 31 Jan 2019 | 21 Jan 2020 | |
75 | Raoul Nehme[v] | Hassan Diab | 21 Jan 2020 | 10 Sep 2021 |
76 | Amin Salam | Najib Mikati | 10 Sep 2021 | Incumbent |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Number of government cabinets since independence.
- ^ a b c d e Position titled as Minister of Supplies and Reserves.[3]
- ^ Served simultaneously as Minister of Interior and Municipalities.
- ^ Served simultaneously as Minister of Telecommunications from 22 August 1945 until 9 April 1946.
- ^ a b Served simultaneously as Minister of Telecommunications.
- ^ a b c d Served simultaneously as Minister of Justice.
- ^ a b c d e f Served simultaneously as Minister of Finance.
- ^ a b c Did not present themselves in front of Parliament and did not submit a Ministerial Statement.
- ^ a b Served simultaneously as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- ^ George Hakim was named Minister of Economy in March 1956.[4] The entire cabinet, except for Hakim and Public Works Minister Emile Boustany, resigned on 8 June 1956. By the time a newer cabinet had its first collective meeting on 9 June 1956, Hakim, who had been asked to stay on as economic minister, declined that position, instead choosing to return to his post as Lebanese minister to West Germany.[5] George Karam, a former minister, lumber importer and co-founder of Banque Nationale Foncière Commerciale et Industriale (BNCFI),[6] was offered two positions in the new cabinet, as Minister of Finance and Minister of Economy.
- ^ Served simultaneously as Minister of Telecommunications from 23 May 1958 until 24 September 1958.
- ^ Their task was to hold Parliamentary elections, and no Ministerial Statement was submitted.
- ^ Position retitled as Minister of National Economy.
- ^ Did not present themselves in front of Parliament, and submitted their resignation on 20 October 1968.
- ^ After Suleiman Frangieh was elected President of Lebanon, Nassim Majdalani was appointed Minister of Economy to serve out the remainder of Frangieh's term.
- ^ a b Position retitled as Minister of Economy and Trade.
- ^ Did not present themselves in front of Parliament, and submitted their resignation on 14 June 1973. Their resignation was accepted 8 July 1973.
- ^ Did not submit a Ministerial Statement to the Parliament.
- ^ Ministerial portfolios were redistributed and George Skaff was appointed Minister of Economy.
- ^ Position retitled as Minister of Economy, Trade & Tourism.
- ^ Position retitled as Minister of Economy & Trade, & of Industry & Oil.
- ^ Resigned 10 August 2020, but remained in office as caretaker minister.
References
[edit]- ^ "Avant-projet d'une loi sur la Communication, l'Ecriture et les Transactions Electroniques" (PDF). May 2005.
- ^ "Contact Us." Ministry of Economy and Trade (Lebanon). Retrieved on 4 April 2019. "Lebanese Ministry of Economy & Trade - MOET Riyad El Soleh Street - Azarieh building - 5 floor"
- ^ "About The Ministry and Minister: Previous Ministers". Ministry Of Economy & Trade, Republic of Lebanon. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Premier of Lebanon Forms New Cabinet". The New York Times. 20 March 1956.
- ^ "New Beirut Cabinet Has Its First Meeting". The New York Times. 9 June 1956.
- ^ Safieddine, Hicham (2015). Economic Sovereignty and the Fetters of Finance: The Making of Lebanon’s Central Bank (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University Of Toronto. pp. 132–133.
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