Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn launches business program to revive Lebanon’s struggling economy

Ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn launches business program to revive Lebanon’s struggling economy

Carlos Ghosn, ex-CEO Nissan, at a press conference on the second press day of the Paris International Motor Show.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE — Carlos Ghosn, the scandal-hit former CEO and chairman of Nissan who fled trial in Japan, is launching a business training program to help spark economic recovery in his native, crisis-hit Lebanon.The French-Lebanese auto executive revealed on Tuesday plans to coach business leaders, provide tech training and create start-up jobs as part of a new tie-up with the Universite Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK), a private university north of Beirut. The announcement comes less than two months after a devastating blast rocked the capital and compounded the economic woes of a country hampered by decades of corruption and political mismanagement. Ghosn, himself facing allegations of financial wrongdoing after