Afaf Nehme
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Community/Lebanon Impact
Afaf Nehme is the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurial Development Foundation, with over 25 years of experience in banking, finance, and NGO management.
She has extensive expertise in microfinance, capacity building, and vocational training for MSMEs, SMEs, and startups, both nationally and across Europe.
Guided by her motto, “If you have a dream, and you have commitment and discipline, you can achieve it,” she has dedicated her career to fostering development and success.
Throughout her years of experience, she has shared this belief with disadvantaged communities in rural areas of Lebanon, particularly women and youth, to strengthen individual economic capacity for the betterment of humanity.
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Education
- 1994 - 1998: Diploma, Law, Institut Superieur de la Sagesse pour l'enseignement du Droit.
- 1978 - 1993: Bac. II in Philosophie, College des Soeurs des Saints Coeurs.
Work history
- 2022 - Present: Managing Partner, NIN and Sons.
- 2020 - 2024: Legal Assistant, House of Law.
- 2016 - 2019: Aftersales administrative assistant, Porsche Centre Lebanon.
- 2008 - 2016: Assistant to the Managing Director, Triplen est / NIN and Sons.
- 2005 - 2016: Assistant to the Managing Director, Watermaster.
- 2004 - 2005: Assistant Coordination, International Association of Lions Clubs.
- 1999 - 2003: Executive secretary, American Life Insurance Company (ALICO).
