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Caroline Fattal Fakhoury

Caroline Fattal Fakhoury combines 25 years corporate business experience with the skills of a certified professional business coach.  Her experience as Exco member of Unilever Levant & Chairwoman of her family business, Fattal Group, makes her aware of challenges facing shareholders, board chairs, board members and senior executives. She is among the first female certified board directors in the region. Since 2014 up to 2020, she has been repeatedly recognized by the magazine Forbes Middle East as one of the “100 Most Powerful Arab Women in Business”.  She is the founder of “Stand For Women”, an NGO advocating for women empowerment and gender equality in the MENA region.  Following the Beirut explosion, she launched the “Marion Fund” an initiative to assist more than 200 women-owned SMEs affected by the blast to go back to business.