Our knowledgeable and highly qualified faculty, are specialists in their fields. They have had extensive teaching experience or are active investment professionals. They have consistently demonstrated an ability to convey complex material in an informative and effective manner and have all earned Ph.D. or CFA® charter, FRM© certificate or the CVA©. A profile of our full time faculty members is listed below.

Dr. Assem Safieddine is the Managing Director of IFA, The Institute For Financial Analysts and the chairperson of the Finance, Accounting and Managerial Economics Track, the director of the Corporate Governance Program at The American University of Beirut- AUB and a board member of the Dubai Ethics Resource Center. He is the founding president of the Lebanese CFA Society and the regional director of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and the president of the Lebanese Risk Management Society. He has served as an advisor notably on corporate governance for several multinational companies and organizations including IFC, Al Qudra, Al Badie Group, Aramco and others.
Dr. Safieddine holds a Ph.D. in finance from Boston College, and has held faculty appointment at Michigan State University for five years and visiting faculty appointment at Harvard University Summer School for more than four years. His research has been published in leading finance journals like the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and his work has been profiled in the Business Week, Harvard Business Review, CFA Digest and the National Bureau of Economic Research along with others.

Mr. Khaled Abdel Samad is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM). He holds an MBA with Distinction from the Lebanese American University. For the past year, he has been serving as the Head of the Credit Risk Department and Basel II Project Manager at Lebanon and Gulf Bank.

Mr. Ghazi Homsi has a BS in Economics from the Lebanese University, he holds an MBA (emphasis Finance) from the Lebanese American University and he is currently a CFA Candidate for Level III. Mr. Homsi has worked for 6 years at the Center for Banking Studies, founded by the Association of Banks in Lebanon and Saint Joseph University, as Deputy Manager and he is currently a member of the IFA Faculty. Mr. Homsi also teaches at the Lebanese American University and the American University in Beirut.

Mr. Marwan Chbaklo is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), he has a BE in Electrical engineering from AUB in 1996. Mr. Chbaklo worked as a biomedical engineer, then as sales representative along technical support. He holds an MBA from the Lebanese American University; he also worked as a Finance Manager. After receiving the CFA designation in 2003, Mr. Chbaklo worked as managing partner in a biomedical engineering firm, heading the marketing and finance departments. Mr. Chbaklo also worked as a part time instructor in AUB and LAU in 2006, Starting 2007, he started working for the IFA as a lecturer covering CFA subjects, and financial modeling

Mr. Haytham Moussa holds a Bachelor degree in Banking and Finance with Distinction from the Lebanese American University; recently acquired an MBA with Distinction from the Lebanese American University, Currently teaching at the Lebanese American University Continuing Education Program (CEP).

Dr. Samer Khalil: is a managing director at the Institute for Financial Analysts. He is an assistant professor of accountancy at the American University of Beirut. He received his PH.D from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2005.He taught at HEC and Concordia University before Joining the American University of Beirut in September 2006. His research interests and publications encompass corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, in addition to auditing.