Ahmed Fahour

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Ahmed Fahour is an Australian of Lebanese descent, and is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian operations of the National Australia Bank (NAB).

Fahour was raised in Australia, but his family had migrated to Australia when he was an infant. ^[1] He studied at St Joseph's College in North Fitzroy, and later attended Redden College in Preston (now called Samaritan Catholic College). After high school, he attended Latrobe University in Melbourne from 1984. After a brief spell as a graduate trainee at the ANZ Bank, he went on to complete his Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) at Melbourne Business School in 1993 while working for Boston Consulting Group. He became a director of the group in 1997 and spent a year as Co-Managing Director of its joint-venture investment company, Iformation. While at BCG, he worked closely with many other Australian business people, including Colin Carter, George Pappas, Maurie Koop, and Mark Joiner.

He joined Citigroup in 2000 as senior vice-president of corporate development in New York, at the age of 36. In February 2004 Fahour was named chief executive of Citigroup Australia. After that, he left to become CEO of NAB's Australian operations.

As part of his deal to join NAB, Fahour received an upfront payment for what he would reportedly have received had he stayed at Citigroup: a cash payment of $3.9 million in January 2005, plus options and shares worth $9.5 million over the next four years. NAB has offered him a four-year contract worth about $34 million if he meets all performance targets, otherwise earning $1.5 million per year if targets are not met.^[2]

Fahour is among the highest-paid executives in Australia, running the biggest division of one of the country’s four major banks. He started work in the role on September 1, 2004.^[3] He was ranked 54 in Business Review Weekly's for 2004.^{[citation needed]}

He is also a high profile member of the Australian Football League (AFL) club Carlton Football Club and presented the NAB Pre-season Premiership Cup to victorious Carlton FC captain Lance Whitnall in March 2007.^{[citation needed]}

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