Young Lebanese unemployed in Lebanon become global pioneers

A group of young Lebanese men and women under 30 were chosen by Forbes, the leading business magazine, as pioneers in generating capital. Rami Rahal and Laura Mary Baz followed Usama Ammar who in 2014 made big accomplishments between New York City, Paris and Silicon Valley and was dubbed as one of the controversial figures in the French startup companies. For more insight on the subject, L’Orient Le Jour spoke to Baz, 26, who said that she has become one of the competitors in global finance, boasting that she heads a team managing billions of dollars at the London-based Vitol oil corporation. Vitol, Baz clarified, owns a power plant in Britain, two oil refineries in Germany and Switzerland and has bought all the Shell gas stations with their logistics equipment inside Australia and Africa. Likewise, the 29-year old Rami Rahal talked big about realizing his NYC dream where he contributed to the startup of the ‘Blue Cloud’ computing project and succeeded in raising some USD67 million over a period of 4 years only. Rami, from the Beirut suburb of Baabda, studied mechanical engineering at AUB and continued his postgraduate studies at Columbia University in NYC where he settled. (L’Orient Le Jour, Al Diyar, January 23, 2016)