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Fadi Najjar

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Advises financial/public-finance clients in the Middle East and North Africa on growth, turnaround strategies, end-to-end transformations, capabilities upgrades, and M&A lifecycle support including integrations

Fadi has led a number of recent engagements supporting banking clients to define their five-year, growth-and-transformation roadmap and assisted in the most challenging aspects of implementation, including full-fledged digital transformations, setting up digital attackers, driving sales excellence, building state-of-the-art risk management practices, and determining the tools and capabilities required to win.

Fadi has also supported several leading regulators and public-finance entities in defining their financial-sector blueprints to futureproof the industry and enable sustainable growth. He helped those regulators build supervisory capabilities and frameworks that allowed them to improve the resilience of the financial sector and protect consumers.

Finally, Fadi has led multiple large banking M&As across the Middle East and North Africa, helping his clients throughout the full M&A lifecycle from the due-diligence phase all the way to integration, enabling them to complete integration in record time with minimal business disruption.

Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked at Booz & Company with a particular focus on the financial sector in the GCC.

Fadi is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

PUBLISHED WORK

Rebound of financial services M&A: Focus on growth and capabilities,” McKinsey & Company, February 2024

PAST EXPERIENCE

Booz & Company
Senior associate

EDUCATION

INSEAD
MBA

American University of Beirut
BEng, computer and communication engineering