Lamia Moubayed: At society’s service

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. Lamia Moubayed, head of the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan (IoF), believes that there is de facto discrimination against women in top management roles. “I personally avoided, as much as possible, work related social functions because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to manage my many duties. This affects your prospects for advancement or promotion to higher duties as you are seen less in circles of power and probably miss on some good ‘introduction’ opportunities,” says Moubayed, explaining that this is one reason why quotas are crucial to stop top positions being filled only with men.   Moubayed was selected as head of the IoF by the French Ministry