Pierre Kanaan
Pierre Kanaan
Head of Legal Affairs Department Central Bank of Lebanon

Mr Pierre Kanaan is an Executive Director and the Head of the Legal Affairs Department at the Central Bank of Lebanon since 1985. Mr Kanaan is the Legal Advisor to the Banking Control Commission (BCC) and the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) and he is an alternate member of the SIC’s decision-making Board.

Mr Kannan is also an IMF expert on Monetary and Financial issues. He was a member of both the Lebanese delegation in the Ad Hoc Committee for the negotiation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and the committee for the negotiation with the FATF to set the general guidelines for Fighting Money Laundering in Lebanon, which led to the issuance of the Lebanese Anti-Money Laundering Law and the related circulars from the Central Bank of Lebanon.

He has lectured in multiple forums and seminars and was also a lecturer in Banking and Financial Legislation and Regulation at the Business School in Saint Joseph University in Beirut from 1979 to 2003.

Mr Kanaan holds a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (LL.M) and a Maîtrise (LL.B) in Lebanese and French Civil Law from the Saint Joseph University in Beirut.