Nicolas Sehnaoui

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nicolas Sehnaoui
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1967(1967-04-23)
Age	57
Birthplace	Beirut
Country	Lebanon
Birth City	Beirut Governorate
Horoscope	Aries

Nicolas Sehnaoui Biography

Nicolas Sehnaoui is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 23, 1967 in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon. Sehnaoui was born in Beirut and was the son of the parents Maurice Sehnaoui and Mouna Bustros on the 23rd of April, 1967. He was raised in Achrafieh the Beirut neighborhood. He was a student at Grand Lycee Franco-Libanais following which was awarded a BA in Economics from Pantheon-Assas University and an MBA from ESA Beirut.

In 2011, and under Sehnaoui’s direction, Lebanon has witnessed significant improvements to infrastructure, including in the construction of a 4,700-kilometer fiber-optic cable linking all exchanges in the telecom industry, acquisition 25 percent of the Alexandros submarine cables (multiplying the capacity of the international Lebanon 14-fold) and the launch of both 3G and 4G mobile networks and an impressive improvement in Internet speed (15-fold for fixed networks with a 80 price reduction, and 18-fold in the mobile network which has a 88 percent price reduction). The year 2011 was a great one for Lebanon. Lebanon is among the 10 nations which saw the highest rank increase in accordance with the IDI rising three places globally and placing sixth regionally.

In 2018, Nicolas Sehnaoui was elected as Member of Parliament for the Beirut I District.

The year 2000 saw Sehnaoui took over the chairmanship of Sogecap which is a major life insurance firm, and later in 2004, he became chairman of the board at Sogelease Liban a financial leasing company. He was in both positions until the beginning of 2008. Since 1996, he’s been a board member for Sehnaoui Plant a regional construction distribution company for equipment.

Nicolas Sehnaoui Net Worth

Nicolas Sehnaoui is one of the richest Politician from Lebanon. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicolas Sehnaoui 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Nicolas Maurice Sehnaoui (born 23 April 1967) is a Lebanese politician from Lebanon.

In 1991, along with Georges Corm, Borhane Alaouie, Karim Kobeissi and Abdel Rahman Ghandour, Sehnaoui co-founded the Lebanese Citizen’s Movement that militates for an open and democratic Lebanon. Between 1991 and 95, the movement released the monthly magazine “Al Mouaten’ (directly translated as “the citizen”) which was available in Arabic as well as French and made the short film “If the People One day is a Call for the creation of a war tribunal that would decide on war crimes committed during Lebanese Civil War. The Minister also created the Free Patriotic Economic Committee which was his office from 2005 to 2011. He is now the Vice President of the Free Patriotic Movement for Political Affairs.

Sehnaoui served as the Minister of Telecommunications of the Republic of Lebanon between June 2011 and February 2014. Under his leadership, the Ministry of Telecommunications (1) upgraded antiquated copper backbone to fiber optics and DWDM latest technologies with plans ready for FTTC and FTTB, (2) replaced ancient EDGE cellular networks with 3G across the country and 50 Mbit/s 4G LTE in greater Beirut, (3) and increased Lebanon’s international bandwidth tenfold via IMEWE whilst securing redundancy through participation in the Alexandros submarine cable; all while reducing internet & mobile costs by over 80%. By June 2013, with the infrastructure well on its way to recovery, Sehnaoui turned his attention to Lebanon’s knowledge economy, more specifically its digital economy: he created Beirut Angels – Lebanon’s 1st tech startup angel network – and actively supported the creation of Banque du Liban Circular 331 – a groundbreaking US$400 million equity investment guarantee initiative that transformed Lebanon’s banks into VC-oriented institutions. Sehnaoui is now leading Lebanon’s Digital Roadmap Steering Committee to ensure the successful implementation of BDL C331. All these efforts where measured & confirmed by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union that ranked Lebanon 1st in progress out of 157 countries in the 2012 ICT Development Index (IDI). Prior to taking office, Sehnaoui successfully managed several companies across a variety of industries. Sehnaoui is a strong advocate of a secular political system.

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Nicolas Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Lebanon. Nicolas Sehnaoui celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.