Hayet Bouzid grew up in Tunisia, born in Mahdia which is the most beautiful sailor city in the world surrounded by endless sea views and sensational openings on the UNLIMITED.
A small city, where everyone knows each other and where girls were supposed to get married very early. She lost her father at the age of 4, and all family discussions around her were at that time about getting her engaged to one of their boys to relief the burden on the back of her mother.
However, her heroic mother had another plan for her: A brilliant dream of being highly educated, of being empowered to achieve both her own dreams and what she couldn’t do with her own life: to take revenge on her father’s decision of preventing her from school access.
Her mother decided to be the one who brakes the rules in order to help Hayet Bouzid reach the SKY. She took the decision to fight for Hayet and realize a part of her own dreams through her daughter. She paid the price very high.
Hayet Bouzid graduated in Translation (Arabic-English-Russian) from Bourguiba School des Langues Vivantes of Tunisia, then a master degree in Russian language from Pouchkine Linguistic Institute of Moscow, then a certificate in Italian Language from Institute Dante Alighieri of Trieste with the plan to get enrolled at the Linguistic and Translation University there.
Meanwhile, she felt the call to travel again to somewhere else. On Sept. 15th, 1993 in Geneva, she is ready for the new adventure. She learned a lot from her ETI brilliant teachers, and from all superiors of her small student jobs she had to perform to survive.
Her translator career began even before being graduated from ETI, with hundreds of ITU scientific recommendations translated into Arabic, UNO, UNESCO-BIE, WWSF and last but not least the translation and fully self-revision of the main GICHD book: “Guide To Mine Action”. Humans are communication beings by definition, so that she believes translation is the most beautiful, intense intellectual and communication exercise. However, it is a very lonely activity. A paradox, isn’t it!
She needed to get connected to people, to be part of a group, to learn new things in a vibrant way, to use her creativity, to feel herself more human in her communication with others. That was the call for a new adventure!
She replied quickly to it, shipping in the Private Banking career!
She loved her first position in Citibank as a compliance officer under the mentoring of one of the most professional and intelligent senior bank officer. Previously, she was a jurist with a UN career behind her spent in the refugees camps in a few African countries. That was Hayet’s second experience with Women Exception!
Then as an account officer in BNP Paribas, again in collaboration with a Saudi senior private banker lady, who gave her access to the world of wealth management with much of esthetics and elegance. She exposed Hayet to the world of Ladies’ investors, made not only of high performance and efficiency, but mainly of grace and special emotional and cultural intelligence when dealing with a completely different segment of UHNWIs.
Then as a relationship manager at Amex, Standard Chartered, a senior private banker at NBAD, an executive director at Gonet, Atlantis, Aldrin, Swiss Investment House, as a business development officer at Experts Without Borders, as a charity & business development officer at Perpetual Charity Corporation and then her last baby: Lady Expert Investor.
Seems to be that she still needs to travel, to move on, to grow up, to learn and discover more, and … to give back what she has received so far as well.