Lebanon’s Last Chance to Preserve and Create Jobs, is Now

In the context of Lebanon’s existential crisis, Executive inquired about the country’s new economic and social barriers – a mountain of problems formed around a nexus of ginormous poverty, towering unemployment, and a colossal need for investment that appears impossible to scale. In seeking to chart new financial and economic pathways, Executive sat down with Romen Mathieu, co-founder and managing partner of EuroMena Funds.  From your perspective as an expert on management and investment, is there any potential to create new employment opportunities in Lebanon now, or would we be chasing a vain dream to think it possible? I do not think the question today is if the country is able to create jobs in the forthcoming period or not. The real question is: is the country able to preserve existing jobs? [We need to] forget about creating new jobs and find ways to preserve jobs. With regard to our