Welcome to our speaker: Mahmoud Shabarek – Group Strategy Director, Shabarek Group

Group Strategy Director, Shabarek Group

We are honored and delighted to welcome Mahmoud Shabarek as one of our speakers at the conference “Le commerce international à l’ère du numérique : confiance, conformité et durabilité ?”. We are also pleased to share his biography below.

Mahmoud Shabarek is a senior executive and strategic advisor with 22+ years of leadership experience at the intersection of agribusiness, international trade, industrial operations, and family enterprise governance, with a track record across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. As Group Strategy Director at Shabarek Group, he led a major transformation to unify a diversified portfolio, strengthen governance, and build an investment-ready group structure—most notably by drafting the Group’s first Family Charter and Corporate Constitution.

During Lebanon’s economic crisis, he spearheaded recapitalization and a financial turnaround to restore stability. In parallel, he oversees regional commodity procurement across Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Egypt, securing over one million tons of strategic raw materials and reinforcing supply-chain resilience. He has also contributed to national reform initiatives in collaboration with international institutions, including the World Bank. Mahmoud holds a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.