Education
A native of Lebanon, Chammah graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1976.
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In January 2012, the company announced internally that Chammah was retiring and would become a senior advisor to the firm. Between September 2007 and December 2009, Chammah was Company-President of Morgan Stanley, overseeing the Firm"s Institutional Securities business and operations. He was based in London.
Chammah is a private advisor to Igor Sechin, president of Rosneft.
He emigrated to the United States in 1976 and received a master"s degree in International Management from American Graduate School of International Management in 1977. Chammah joined Morgan Stanley in 1993 as Head of United States. Debt Capital Markets.
In 1996, he was promoted to Worldwide Head of Debt Capital Markets Services. In 2001, Chammah"s responsibilities were extended to include Worldwide Leveraged Finance and in 2002, he formed and was Head of the Global Capital Markets Group, which combined the Firm"s debt and equity capital markets activities.
In 2005, Chammah was named Global Head of Investment Banking and in September 2007 he was named Company-President of the firm, a position he held until December 2009.
Before joining Morgan Stanley, Chammah was a managing director of Cr Suisse First Boston, responsible for United States. Taxable Fixed Income Capital Markets and Structured Finance Groups. Earlier in his career, Chammah worked for the First Boston Corporation and Blyth Eastman PaineWebber.
Membership
He was Chairman of Morgan Stanley International and served as a member of the Morgan Stanley Management and Operating Committees. Chammah is chairman of Rosneft’s Management Board and a member of the Supervisory Board of Rosneft Bank.
