Charbel Nahas studied engineering and planning at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées as well as economy and social anthropology. He was in charge of the reconstruction of Beirut Central District (1982-1986). He worked in banking and was involved in project financing and in post-war modernization of the banking sector (1986 -1998). He presented a “Financial Correction Program” to the Government (1999).