Hanin Sayyed
Hanin Sayyed | |
|---|---|
حنين السيد | |
.jpg?lang=en) Sayyed in 2025 | |
| Minister of Social Affairs | |
| Assumed office 8 February 2025 | |
| President | Joseph Aoun |
| Prime Minister | Nawaf Salam |
| Preceded by | Hector Hajjar |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Independent |
| Stanford University Columbia University | |
Hanin Sayyed (Arabic: حنين السيد, romanized: Ḥunayn al-Sayyid) is a Lebanese economist and academic. She has been serving as Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon since 2025 and previously served at the World Bank.
Career
[edit]Sayyed is an economist by training, holding a bachelor's and postgraduate degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University in the United States.[1][2][3]
She has taught at several universities in New York and has worked at Morgan Stanley, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.[1][3] In addition, she has a long career at the World Bank, where she served as a senior expert in human development and social protection at the Bank’s Beirut office for the Middle East and North Africa region, and where, between 2011 and 2017, she coordinated the response to the Syrian civil war and its consequences.[1][2]
She has also been involved during the Lebanese financial crisis, where she led the social response through programs such as the Emergency Social Safety Net.[1]
Sayyed was named the new Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon by new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, succeeding Hector Hajjar.[2][3]
Personal life
[edit]Her mother died at the 2020 Beirut explosion.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "السيرة الذاتية لوزيرة الشؤون الشؤون الاجتماعية حنين السيّد" [Biography of the Minister of Social Affairs, Hanin Al-Sayed]. kataeb.org (in Arabic). 8 February 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- ^ a b c "Qui sont les ministres du gouvernement de Nawaf Salam ?" [Who are the ministers in Nawaf Salam's government?]. L'Orient–Le Jour (in French). 8 February 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- ^ a b c Carroll, Rosaleen (10 February 2025). "Meet the 5 women in Lebanon's new government". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- ^ "Watch: Minister lost her mother in the Beirut explosion". MTV (Lebanon). 4 May 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2026.