NAGI MORKOS
With over 20 years of experience in the hospitality and retail industries in the Gulf and the Middle East, Nagi Morkos heads a team of 20 multi-lingual professional consultants holding high degrees from renowned international hospitality and business universities with years of experience in a wide array of fields. He lived in Kuwait where he developed and managed a retail family business before returning to Beirut where he created the Circus restaurant-bar in Monot Street that he managed from 1997 until 2003 with the help of local partners and which became a landmark on Beirut Food & Beverage scene. He also developed other restaurants and pioneered the launch of the beach resort trend in Lebanon in 1999 with the opening of the first trendy day and night venue, the Bamboo Bay-Circus in Jiyeh, South Lebanon. He has a wide scope of contacts with regional hospitality industry actors and with Lebanese press and is a contributing writer for various general and specialized magazines in Lebanon among which “Hospitality News” in English and “Le Commerce du Levant” in French.