Chadia El Meouchi Naoum
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Chadia is Managing Partner of Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm, a leading regional law firm in the Middle East, based in Lebanon and Qatar and is a member of the New York Bar. Chadia is consistently recognised as a leading corporate lawyer in various law guides including Chambers Global, the IFLR, & Global Legal 500. Chadia is board member of various companies, has authored a number of articles, and is frequently invited to speak at conferences.
Chadia is a visiting professor lecturing in the LLM for Business Law/ Master of Science Energy at: University Panthéon – Assas Paris II, Paris - France, American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University(LAU).
Chadia is also a co-founder in a leading ed-tech startup, LeapLearner, a co-founder and Partner in Aura Capital and a co-founder at ProDG Group.
Chadia has a BCom from Concordia University, a BCivLaw at the University of Montreal, a Master of Laws from Georgetown University (Washington, DC), a post-graduate diploma in Oil & Gas law from Robert Gordon University, an Islamic Finance Qualification from the UK SII and ESA, and a Certificate in ADR from the Canadian International Arbitration Centre.
Chadia is the co-founder of the Middle East Leadership Initiative, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the Aspen Corps of Moderators, and of the Aspen Leadership initiatives committee. Chadia is also a co-founder and board member of various NGOs and institutions including Co-Chair of the Human Rights Watch Committee for Lebanon, and a member of the LLM Advisory Council at the LAU.
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The next generation of leaders in the Middle East-business, government, and civic leaders-must come together to prepare for a future that will be more interconnected than ever before in history. It is for this reason that The Middle East Leadership Initiative (MELI) was conceived. The aim of MELI is to identify and motivate emerging leaders to apply their energies, skills and the resources of their institutions to the foremost societal challenges of their countries, their region and our times. Within Chadia El Meouchi's project, co-founded with the Aspen Institute and Shane Tedjarati, Fellows were nominated by recognized local business, government and community leaders and an inaugural class of 22 "MELI Fellows" between the ages of 25 and 45 were selected from ten countries in the Middle East. Of those selected, 18 fellows were able to make the first seminar in Feb. 2009 in Jordan. Approximately $1M USD was raised from Booz and Company and Saudi Telecom to launch the first class, self-named the "MELIans", which will be graduating in Antequera, Spain in October, 2010. Chadia has been working on raising additional funds to ensure a small endowment and the continuity of the classes over the next five years and has achieved until now a total funding of approximately $2M USD from Booz and Company, Saudi Telecom and the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Foundation with more funding in the pipeline. In addition to graduating the first class, MELI will be announcing the launching of the second class at the end of 2010. Finally, Chadia is focused on establishing a local governing body and signing an operating agreement with the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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