Yoël Zaoui

Yoël Zaoui (born in 1961 in Casablanca) is a Franco-Moroccan investment banker, globally co-head of mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs Europe since 2011. He was elected "best banker of the year" in 2008 by the French community of London.

Biography
Born in Morocco to a senior civil servant father, Yoël Zaoui spent his youth in Italy and studied at HEC Paris and at Stanford University.

He is the brother of Michaël Zaoui (born in 1957), businessman, founder of the France Israel Foundation, appointed in 2019 by Mohammed VI as a member of the Special Commission on the Development Model, with whom he participated in all the major mergers and acquisitions operations of the last ten years in Europe: Mittal Arcelor, Elf Total, Castorama Kingfisher, Crédit agricole Banque Indosuez, HSBC CCF, etc.

In 2014, Yoël Zaoui and his brother Michael received the third class Ouissam decoration awarded by the King of Morocco. He is part of the same promotion as the French intellectual Edgar Morin and Irina Bokova at the time director general of UNESCO.