Ziad Abdelnour is a Lebanese-born American author and trader, financier and President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., Founder & President of the Financial Policy Council, Inc.and President & Founder of the U.S Committee for a Free Lebanon.

Abdelnour is the son of Lebanese industrialist and former MP Khalil Abdelnour (1992-2000) and the nephew of former Lebanese financier and MP Salem Abdelnour (1960-1964 and 1972-1992).

Prior to founding Blackhawk Partners in 2008, Mr. Abdelnour was Senior Managing Director with TerraNova Capital Partners, Inc., an M&A advisory firm and Managing Director and Head of Venture Finance at THCG, a New York-based merchant banking firm. Prior to THCG, Mr. Abdelnour held senior investment and merchant banking positions with Ladenburg Thalmann, Inc., Interbank Capital Group, Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., and American Express where his responsibilities included investing, financing, and restructuring over 100 companies spanning the industrial, logistics, consumer, and manufacturing industries both in the United States as well as in emerging markets. Mr. Abdelnour holds an MBA in Financial Engineering from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the American University of Beirut."

Current Work & Activism

Abdelnour is a global private equity expert [1] and prominent [2] pro-Lebanon activist and lobbyist on behalf of a free Lebanon. His research report Ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon: The US Role was the blueprint for a series of policies and activities that led to the Syria Accountability Act of 2003 which forced the Syrian military to withdraw from Lebanon in 2005 .

Abdelnour labeled the “Baasha of Wall Street” [3] has been since the publishing of his research report a major force in shaping the US-Lebanon Policy debate towards Freedom in his native land and a keenly sought analyst regarding issues pertaining to economic & political matters in the Middle East at large and Lebanon in particular as he is frequently interviewed on radio and TV shows nationwide.[4][5] [6] [7] [8][9]





Book (as author)

Abdelnour, Ziad (2011). Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics. Wiley. ISBN 1118150120





Affiliations

General Articles

Daniel Pipes and Ziad Abdelnour, Ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon: The US Role, the Lebanon Study Group Report, Middle East Forum, May 2000





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