Yassine Jaber

Yassine Jaber is a liberal Shia member of parliament in Lebanon. He has represented the Nabatiyeh district in South Lebanon since the first post-Lebanese Civil War election in 1992. Although nominally independent, he is affiliated with the Liberation and Development block led by Amal Movement head and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri. In the May 2018 elections, Jaber won 7,920 preferential votes under a newly instituted, hybrid voting system that put him at the 71st place out of 515 total candidates across the country.

Biography
Yasin Kamel Jaber was born in Nabatiyeh in 1951. After graduating with a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut in 1973, Jaber founded a financial company in the capitol and worked there until the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. Jaber spent 1976-1978 abroad, working mainly in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Britain and Los Angeles in the contracting and international trade sectors, and returned to Lebanon to launch real estate, tourism and hotel projects in Beirut. From 1981, he primarily resided in London where he was a member of the Board of Directors of the British-Lebanese Friendship Society and of the Advisory Council of the Arab Community in Britain.

Shortly after the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, Jaber ran and won a seat in the new Parliamentary elections, held in 1992. In 1993, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Casino Du Lebanon and in 1994 became a member of the re-launched Beirut Stock Exchange Committee.

Appointed Minister of Economy from 1996 to 1998, he was part of the Rafik Hariri Government engaging in the reconstruction of Lebanon. Jaber advocated for free trade with the United States and other countries.

Considered a liberal politician, Jaber supports human rights through equitable economic development in other countries such as South Africa

He is married to Wafaa Mohamed Al Ali, and has four children.