4.18
GPA at AUB
on a 4.00 scale
Beirut · Finance · Art · Impact
Samir
Kassir.
Numbers, paintings, and projects that start in Beirut.
I study finance at AUB and explore where capital, culture, and long-term value meet across the Middle East.
Currently
Investment Management Intern
Banque Audi (Suisse) SA
$40K+
institutional funding
raised for EcoCitizens
20+
events delivered
across Lebanon
600+
community members
and still growing
01 / Now
Three worlds, one week.
Finance, community work, and art are not side projects to one another. They are how I learn to see value from different angles.
August 2026
Learning where capital meets judgment.
Currently an Investment Management Intern through August 14, after completing EY Beirut's audit CO-OP in July.
01
Investing
Learning how market views become investment ideas at Banque Audi (Suisse) SA.
02
Building
Growing EcoCitizens and developing practical tools for young people in Lebanon.
03
Advising
Working on strategy and business development in Beirut's secondary art market.
02 / Featured
Built for a decision I kept seeing.
Students are asked to choose a university, country, and career before anyone helps them connect the trade-offs.
Original framework
COMPASS
A Future-Proof Career Framework
A structured method for Lebanese students choosing a university, major, and country. It connects personal constraints with live research on cost, mobility, employment, and AI exposure.
BudgetCountryCareerAI resilience
03 / Selected work
Where ideas become real.
Three projects, three very different rooms: an art gallery, environmental work across Lebanon, and a leadership classroom.
Art & strategy Maroun Chaccour Art Gallery
Strategy & Business Development Consultant
Advising a Beirut secondary-market gallery on client acquisition, market research, transaction origination, and growth.
Visit
Climate & community EcoCitizens.lb
Co-founder & Lead Project/Finance Manager
A 600+ member youth environmental initiative that raised $40,000 in institutional funding and delivered 20+ events.
Visit
Education & leadership Phoenix Institute
Youth Leadership Program Coach
Designed and delivered a 10-session curriculum helping young people turn communication, goals, and ideas into action.
Visit
04 / Built
The tool the banks will not build.
Private banks start at half a million dollars and go up to ten. Nobody builds proper wealth tooling below that, because there is no money in it.
Open source tool
Mini Wealth Manager
Your cash is not the risk-free asset.
Every mainstream portfolio tool treats your bank balance as the safe corner of the balance sheet. That assumption is false for anyone in Lebanon, Egypt, Nigeria, Argentina or Turkey, where deposits can be trapped, currencies reprice, and the money you can see is not the money you can withdraw.
So this one asks a different question. Not how much you have, but how much of it is actually yours to move. Two people with the same seven thousand dollars get different answers, and the difference is the whole point.
Where you standRunway, not budgetsAllocationStress testsEvery source shown
No account, no server, no network calls. Nothing you type leaves your browser. A teaching tool, and explicitly not investment advice.
$7,000
Held in a bank at home
$980 you can reach
$7,000
Held somewhere it can move
$7,000 you can reach
Same net worth. Different amount of money. Every tool built for this assumes the case on the left cannot happen.
04 / Writing
Ideas worth putting in public.
I write when two fields that rarely speak to each other should: finance and art, crisis and entrepreneurship, capital and place.
Artsights · June 2026 The Quiet Asset Class: A Case for MENA Art in Private Equity Portfolios
A case for treating MENA art as an under-examined alternative asset class, with the patience, information gaps, and regional judgment that the thesis demands.
Read the article
AUB OSB Review · January 2025 From Collapse to Creativity: Alternative Financing for Businesses in Post-War Lebanon
How Lebanese businesses can look beyond traditional bank lending after crisis and conflict.
Read the article
More notes and working ideas on LinkedIn.
05 / About
The thread behind the projects.
I am interested in the kind of judgment that does not fit neatly inside one discipline.
“Capital is never only numbers. It is also trust, timing, taste, and place.”
FinanceMENAArtClimateYouth
Beirut, Lebanon
I am a finance student at AUB, ranked at the top of my class. I am most interested in how capital moves through MENA, especially where analysis meets human judgment.
I grew up in Beirut and studied at the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais. I read in French, work in English, and live in Arabic. I hold Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship.
At 17, I co-founded EcoCitizens. Since then, I have helped grow it to 600+ members, deliver 20+ events, and raise more than $40,000 in institutional funding.
Professionally, I completed EY Beirut's audit CO-OP and now intern in investment management at Banque Audi (Suisse) SA. Beyond finance, I advise a gallery in Achrafieh, coach younger students, and write about art, technology, and capital in the region.
I want what I build to help Lebanon stand stronger. I am in Beirut, building.