Danielle Hatem is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of D Does Business, an influential blog highlighting strategic economical facts and figures, with the aim to create more awareness about latest business headlines and influence and motivate the youth into entrepreneurship and business growth. Today, D Does Business has around 36K followers. Danielle has 15 years of work experience in local and international financial institutions. She started her career at Merrill Lynch in Paris in private banking and shifted to consulting within BNP Paribas Group and Euronext. Danielle moved to Lebanon in 2008 to work as a trader at FFA Private Bank. In 2012, she took a financial advisory role at Crest Investment Company. Her cross-functional responsibilities included geopolitics, economics, and financial advisory. With respect to her educational background, Danielle holds a Bachelor of Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB), a Master in Finance from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and an Executive Master in Finance from HEC Paris.
Lebanon is in the throes of a severe economic crisis, classified to be one of the worst three crises worldwide since the 1850s. The Lebanese Pound (LBP) crashed, more than 55 percent of the country’s population is now trapped in poverty and struggling for bare necessities. In addition to this, unemployment rose to around 40%, prices skyrocketed, and Lebanon became […]
