Iskandar, former FT correspondent, dies at 57

Samer Iskandar, a former Financial Times correspondent, died on Aug. 13 at the age of 57.

Youmna Melhem Chamieh of the FT writes, “Samer was a financier, teacher, researcher and journalist. To try to sum up his career across so many industries, roles and locations is a challenge perhaps only he could have risen to. He was a board member at the Banque Libano-Française, a senior commentator at the BBC, an executive director at Euronext and a journalist at this very newspaper, where from 1996 to 2001 he served as an International Capital Markets reporter, the Brussels correspondent, the Paris correspondent and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Connectis.

“Sam was passionate about economics, and his skill with numbers was perhaps matched only by his skill with stories. This was a man who, when I asked him what year he’d met his wife Isabelle, put it to me like this: ‘Our first date was in Francs; by our second, we’d already switched to the euro.’

“But one of the roles Sam cherished most was being a professor. From 2010 until he fell ill, he taught finance at the ESCP Business School. As one of his students, albeit in another discipline, I felt in good company the day I read the hundreds of testimonials of other young people whose intellectual, personal and professional lives Sam had so profoundly impacted.”

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