Biosketch

Wassim A. Mansouri, PhD, is a Lebanese lawyer, academic, and financial leader. He serves as First Vice Governor of Banque du Liban, a position to which he was first appointed in June 2020 and reappointed in 2025. He served as Acting Governor from 2023 to 2025. During that tenure, he chaired the Central Council of Banque du Liban, the Special Investigation Commission, and the Capital Markets Authority, and represented Lebanon on the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the Arab Monetary Fund.

Dr. Mansouri founded Mansouri & Associates in 1998 and was a member of the National Committee of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 2012 to 2018. He served as a legal advisor to the Minister of Finance, representing the ministry in meetings with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development between 2014 and 2020. He has also served as a legal consultant to the Lebanese Parliament’s Human Rights Committee and as a board member of the Tripoli Special Economic Zone.

Dr. Mansouri holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Montpellier in France and a Doctorate of State from the Lebanese University. He is a professor in the French Law Department at the Lebanese University, where he served as director from 2019 to 2020.

In 2009, he founded the Lebanese Association of Constitutionalists, an organization dedicated to promoting knowledge and awareness of constitutional law, human rights, and democracy. He has authored numerous articles and studies in law, constitutional studies, political science, and economics, including a 2018 study on Lebanon’s accession to the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

His honors include a state decoration conferred by the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in 2018 and the Arab Monetary Fund medal, presented in 2022 in recognition of his service on the Fund’s Board of Executive Directors. In January 2025, he also received honorary plaques from Arab bank governors during a visit to Bahrain, recognizing his leadership at Banque du Liban.

Dr. Mansouri is a founding member of the Lebanese Academy, established in 2022.