Staff
The Center is staffed with a Center coordinator, five resident advisors, and four support staff. The Center coordinator has responsibility for leadership and management of the Center’s activities and staff. The resident advisors deliver training and advice in their respective areas of competence, and coordinate with other technical assistance providers. The Center also makes significant use of short-term experts.
- Center Coordinator: Mr. Saade Chami
Prior to METAC, Mr. Chami was Division Chief in the Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD) where he led missions to several countries in the region including Jordan and Yemen. While on leave without pay from the IMF, Mr. Chami spent a few months in Lebanon during 2005-06 to help the Lebanese government in the preparation of the main document for the Paris III donors meeting. Mr. Chami also worked on several countries in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Before joining the IMF, Mr. Chami was Director of the Graduate School of Business and Management at the American University of Beirut where he taught economics and finance for six years and served as an advisor to the central bank of Lebanon and a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- Banking Supervision Advisor: Mr. Mohamad Ali Hassan
Before joining METAC in March 2009, Mr. Ali Hassan was Senior Manager at the Banking Control Commission (BCC)-Banque du Liban. He has 19 years of experience in banking supervision. For the last 7 years at the BCC, he was the Head of Financial Institutions and Market Risk Department. From 1990 until 2001, Mr. Ali Hassan worked as on-site examiner for banks and financial institutions. Prior to joining the BCC in 1990, Mr. Ali Hassan worked in the banking sector for four years. He has held a part-time instructor position at the American University of Beirut where he taught accounting for 9 years.
- Multi Sector Statistics Advisor: Mr. Gillmore Hoefdraad
Mr. Hoefdraad is a senior economist at the IMF Statistics Department. He has ten years of experience in macroeconomic statistics. Prior to joining the IMF in 1999, Mr. Hoefdraad was the coordinator of the Caribbean Program at the Center of Monetary Studies of Latin America and the Caribbean (CEMLA) in Mexico. At the IMF, he has worked in the areas of balance of payments and external debt statistics, and the IMF's data dissemination standards, providing technical assistance and training to a number of South American, European, Central Asian, and Middle Eastern countries.
- Public Financial Management Advisor: Mr. Pierre Messali
Before joining METAC in September 2008, Mr. Messali was for seven years a Senior Public Financial Management advisor at the World Bank (Headquarters) working on African and Middle Eastern countries. Prior to the World Bank, Mr. Messali was at the Ministry of Finance in France where he hold several positions in different areas: Public financial management at the Budget Directorate and the Parliament (Budget Committee), tax policy in a State-Owned Enterprise, and Human resources at the French Mint for the development of the Euro currency.
- Revenue Administration Advisor: Ms. Manal Assir
Ms. Assir has more than 16 years of experience in tax administration and tax system reforms. Before joining METAC in December 2009, she was the Director of the UNDP Tax Reform Program in Lebanon. Since 2005, she has been a member of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department panel of experts. From 2001 until 2005, she directed a World Bank project aiming at the modernization of the Cadastre / Land Registry operations in Lebanon. She has been a panel expert of a number of international organizations and conducted several evaluation and technical assistance missions. She had also worked as a senior management consultant in modeling and developing financial and tax information systems in Canada and the Middle East. Ms. Assir had held a part-time instructor position at the Saint-Joseph University where she taught project management modules.
- Public Debt Management and Money Markets Development Advisor: Ms. Nelly Batchoun
Prior to joining METAC in April 2010, Ms. Batchoun spent most of her career at the Central Bank of Jordan where she held several high level positions dealing with Public Debt Management, Open Market Operations, Payment Systems and Domestic Banking Operations, Banking Supervision and Reserve Management. Ms. Batchoun also worked at the World Bank in Washington D. C. for the period 1994-1996 on financial sector restructuring, financial markets development, and private sector development. Ms. Batchoun served also as consultant for the Jordan Securities Commission. In February 2007, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan granted Ms. Batchoun Wissam Al-Istiqlal (Order of Independence), First Class in appreciation of services while at the Central Bank of Jordan.
- Office Manager: Ms. Sawsan Saidi
- Administrative Assistant: Ms. Mona Demian
- Administrative Assistant :Ms. Rita Faddoul
- Driver/Clerk: Mr. Fadi Mehrez
