Salah Brahimi

Salah Brahimi is one of the most prominent amongst the new generation of Algerians active at the international level; perhaps the most prominent in his field and one of the top younger generation leaders from emerging countries engaged in major endeavors within the "First World" in this respect.

Occupation

He is a strategic advisory services consultant active in a variety of areas such as international business development, institutional governance, development policies and operations, international finance & investment. He was, for more than a decade, leading cofinancing, investor relations and institutional affairs for the largest World Bank Trust-Fund supported multilateral program of its kind in the world. Brahimi has led important institutional programs for a variety of public and private institutions over the past twenty years, including some fifteen years in the most senior capacities afforded by those programs in both first world and emerging markets environments across five continents.

Family

Salah Brahimi is the son of Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, the former Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister best known for his role as the United Nations Secretary General's Special Adviser and UN Undersecretary General for Preventative Diplomacy, who led key diplomatic negotiations around the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, South Africa, Haiti, Yemen, Cote d'Ivoire, Burundi, Congo, Nigeria, Cameroun, Lebanon - the Middle-East where he is the artisan of the Taef Agreement which put an end to seventeen years of Lebanese civil war, etc...). Salah Brahimi's sister is HRH Princess Rym Ali of Jordan (a former CNN war reporter) and his brother is Salem Brahimi a Paris-based movie producer (documentaries and feature films).

The Brahimi family (referred to as Al-Ibrahimi in some Middle-Eastern documentary sources because of the phonetic Arabic language transcriptions), one of the most prominent of the Arab World (and reputed to have the largest extended family "tribe" in that respect, of the Arab World, amongst families considered to constitute the elite of such an ethnically diverse part of the world), is from Algeria's High Plateaux Central area of the North (some 100 km south of the capital Algiers) (whereas their ancestry hailed from the Yemeni tribes of Haddramut which crossed into North Africa via their travels to the Horn of Africa during the initial period of Islamization of the Maghreb some 1300 years ago).

Salah Brahimi, who was born in Egypt in 1965, has an ascendency which includes a mother of Croatian origin and a grandmother of Armenian origin (and who was married to grandfather Milan Bacic, a former Commander of the Royal Military Court of King Peter of Yugoslavia). Salah Brahimi is himself married to Doaa Taha, a renowned Egyptian engineer, researcher and consultant (The George Washington University) specialized in engineering management geared towards risk, crisis, disaster and emergency management. The couple, based in Washington DC, have two American daughters, Sofia and Hannah.