Hamouda Chekir is a Partner at Centerview Partners in Paris, specializing in strategic transactions, complex financings, capital markets operations, and debt restructurings, primarily across Emerging Markets and the Gulf region.
Over the course of his career, Hamouda has advised sovereigns and sovereign-owned entities across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America on more than $400 billion of assignments. His experience encompasses a broad range of mandates, including sovereign debt restructurings, capital markets operations, credit-enhanced financings, liability management exercises, and debt swaps.
In addition, Hamouda has extensive experience in the Gulf region, working closely with sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises on high-profile financing, strategic investment, and M&A transactions across the energy, infrastructure, and industrial sectors.
Separately, Hamouda is a co-founder of the Finance for Development Lab at the Paris School of Economics. He has taught macroeconomics at Harvard University and Sciences Po Paris, and remains actively engaged in policy-oriented research at the intersection of finance, development, and economics.
Hamouda holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was an Arthur Sachs Scholar, as well as degrees from the Paris School of Economics and ENSAE, France’s leading institution for economics and statistics.