UsaIdLebanon.org.lb
Title
USAID Lebanon
Description
Mission Statement
USAID’s Mission in Lebanon strives to help nurture the right environment for the Lebanese people to promote sound economic opportunities, political governance, environmental health and peace and stability in order to improve Lebanon’s overall regional and global well being, primarily by targeting key growth-oriented industry sectors and geographical areas.
Mission Director
Raouf Youssef was sworn in as the Mission Director for Lebanon on June 17, 2002 at the US Agency for International Development (USAID)’ Headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. Mr. Youssef has been an integral part of USAID’s development efforts throughout the Middle East for over 25 years, most recently as Officer-in-Charge of Egypt, Bureau for Asia and the Middle East.
Mr. Youssef joined the Foreign Service in 1976 and has completed tours in Egypt, Oman, Sudan and Kenya. His last overseas post was in Cairo, Egypt where he managed the largest USAID-funded infrastructure projects implementing over $1.8 billion of activities in the power and telecommunications sectors.
