Yoël Zaoui

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Yoël Zaoui
Born (1961-01-11) 11 January 1961 (age 63)
Casablanca, Marocco
Alma materHEC Paris
Paris Dauphine University
OccupationFrench-Moroccan investment banker

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.[1] He was elected "best banker of the year" in 2008 by the French community of London.[2][3]

Biography

Born in Morocco to a senior civil servant father,[4] Yoël Zaoui spent his youth in Italy and studied at HEC Paris and at Stanford University.[5]

He is the brother of Michaël Zaoui (born in 1957),[6] 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.[7]

In 2014, Yoël Zaoui and his brother Michael received the third class Ouissam decoration awarded by the King of Morocco.[8] He is part of the same promotion as the French intellectual Edgar Morin and Irina Bokova at the time director general of UNESCO.[9]

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