Robert left Lebanon shortly after the outbreak of the civil war in 1975 and has ever since been an expatriate on the move. He has lived in a number of countries - France, Kuwait, Argentina, United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia - and considers himself today a 'citizen of the world'. Following studies in Economics at the American University of Beirut, he obtained a Ph.D. in Money & Banking from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. He is currently the CEO & Managing Director of one of the largest Middle-Eastern banks. Hammana, his village on his mother's side, has a special place in his heart. This is indeed where, as a kid, he used to spend his summertime. In 2015, in a rather atypical initiative by a banker, he published a book entitled "Hammana in the Dialogue of Generations". In the words of Professor Antoine Messara, member of the Constitutional Council in Lebanon, “Robert Eid engages us in a new type of History, plunges us in the memory of society and inaugurates in Lebanon a historical and social anthropology bringing to the surface the profound malaise within the Lebanese political society". A firm commitment to culture as an integral part of collective memory has guided Robert to give life to Hammana Artist House, which, he hopes, will bring people and creative ideas together so as to contribute to a society of openness and tolerance.
