Riad Salameh

رياض سلامة

Other Independent Inactive Unverified

Governor of the Banque du Liban 1993-2023. Faces multiple international investigations and a 2024 arrest in Lebanon over embezzlement allegations linked to the 2019 financial collapse.

Country: Lebanon
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Other
Status: Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Riad Salameh (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English 2023-07-31

Riad Salameh (Governor of Lebanon's central bank, Banque du Liban, 1993–2023) — statement to CNBC on the day he left office, 31 Jul 2023, rejecting blame for the financial collapse: "It is untrue to hold me directly and solely responsible," arguing exchange policy was set by successive governments, not the central bank.

It is untrue to hold me directly and solely responsible. The exchange policies are determined by the government and [the Banque Du Liban] applies them in every government that was elected since 1993, their target was…

38 words original source ↗

How to cite

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In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Riad Salameh [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/riad-salameh

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Riad Salameh." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/riad-salameh.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-riad-salameh,
  title     = {{Riad Salameh}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/riad-salameh},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.