Hayat Nader: Making it count

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For this month’s special report on women in the workforce, Executive chose to profile a selection of seven successful, upper managerial level, Lebanese working women. Read more profiles as they’re published here, or pick up March’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. “I’m very comfortable with numbers and I love to work with them,” says Hayat Nader, head of compliance at Credit Libanais Group since 2013.  She was one of only three girls among 60 students in the Baccalaureate with a specialization in mathematics at the International School of Choueifat. Later on, at the Lebanese University, where she majored in finance and accounting, she was once again one of only five girls in the entire faculty. “Now, if you go to the school of business [at the Lebanese University], it is mostly girls that major in business, but I’m talking about back then,” says Nader.  [pullquote]“The private sector … saw woman as