Mr. Mohamad El-Hout
Chairman - Director General
Middle East Airlines
NAME and OCCUPATION
Family name: El-Hout
Given name: Mohamad
Father name: Abdul Rahman
Organization: Middle East Airlines – Air Liban
Job Title: Chairman-Director General
PERSONAL
Place/date of Birth: Beirut 1959
Nationality: Lebanese, French
EDUCATION
1984 MBA, American University of Beirut.
1981 BA Economics, American University of Beirut.
1977 Baccalaureate II – Al Makassed Al Horj School
AWARDS
2017 Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration –
Arab University of Beirut
CAREER
1998-Present Chairman-Director General, Middle East Airlines – Air Liban
1993-1998 Director of Real Estate and Financial Assets Department,
Central Bank of Lebanon
1986-1993 Advisor to the Governor (Crisis Management), Central Bank
of Lebanon
1981-1986 Joined the Central Bank as an Economist and promoted to
Deputy Director of Statistics and Economic Studies
Department
LANGUAGES English -Arabic - French/Fair
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019-2022 Chairman of AACO Executive Committee
2004-2007 Chairman of AACO Executive Committee
2017-Present Member of the International Air Transport Association Board
of Governors (IATA)
1998-2005 Member of the IATA Board of Governors
2019-2024 Member of the Audit Committee (IATA)
2024 Chairman of IATA Audit Committee
ACHIEVEMENTS AT MEA
Led the restructuring of Middle East Airlines- Air Liban after two decades of heavy losses; which allowed the company to become profitable starting the year 2002 for twenty-three consecutive years except for the year 2020 due to the Covid Pandemic.
Those Positive results were achieved under the most strained and difficult security and political times that Lebanon and the Middle East have faced. In 2008 MEA was ranked among the Top 25 Airlines Companies in the world in terms of both operating and Net Profit.
In 2020 Middle East Airlines has managed the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis and ensured continuity using its own resources without any financial support from the Government.
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
1990-Present President of Social Reform Association, Beirut
1996-Present Founding Member of the Conseil de Surveillance of Ecole
Supérieure des Affaires (ESA), Beirut
2006-2014 Member of the Board of Trustees, Makassed Philanthropic
Islamic Association in Beirut
2012- 2024 Member of the Board of Trustees – Rafic Hariri University
2016- 2023 Member of the Board of Trustees of “Dar El Ajaza”
DECORATIONS
2004 Ordre de Rio Branco, rank Commander, Brazil
2004 Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, rank Chevalier,
France
2005 National Order of the Cedar, rank Commander, Lebanon
2011 Ordre de Leopold, rank Officer, Belgium
2012 Order of the Italian Star (OSI) rank Officer, Italy
2014 Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur, rank Officier, France
2019 Officers Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, Spain