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Issam Michael Fares is an industrialist and philanthropist. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2000 to 2005, and was elected as a Member of the Lebanese Parliament from 1996 to 2005.
Born in 1937, in Lebanon, Mr.
Fares graduated from Tripoli College in 1954 and was hired as a bookkeeper at Abela Catering. Soon after, Mr. Fares was expanding and managing Abela Catering operations in the Arab Gulf region and in 1966, settled in Saudi Arabia.
In 1972, Mr.
Fares formed a joint venture with Ballast Nedam, a leading Dutch construction firm, and began to develop much needed infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. By 1979 Mr. Fares had acquired Ballast Nedam and under his ownership the company completed many notable projects, including the world’s longest international bridge at the time; connecting Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
Ballast Nedam was sold by Mr. Fares to British Aerospace in 1989.
As Mr. Fares witnessed the Lebanese Civil War ignite in 1975, he strategi