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The new Lebanese government, headed by Saad Hariri, was the first woman in the Arab countries to take over the portfolio of the Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities.
The new minister is an expert in economics. For eight years she headed the Free Economic Zone of Tripoli and held the post of Minister for the second time after taking over the Ministry of Finance from the first government led by Saad Hariri in 2009.
Raya Hafar al-Hassan was born in January 1967 in Tripoli (Lebanon), mother of three girls and married to a doctor.
She earned her BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut in 1987 and her MBA from George Washington University in 1990.
She was responsible for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to the Lebanese Prime Minister, before joining the Ministry of Finance in 1992.
From 1995 to 1999, she served as Minister of Finance and Financial Affairs Coordinator at the Ministry of Finance, then as a consultant to the Minister of Economy and Trade (2000-2003), before resuming her work in the cabinet of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, in 2005.
Raya al-Hassan, a member of the Future Movement led by Saad Hariri, is one of four women in the new 28-member cabinet, as well as the prime minister and his vice president, released Thursday by Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
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