Carlos Ghosn launches initiative to help his native Lebanon

Nissan’s former executive Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), north of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Ghosn was arrested in Japan in 2018, and was awaiting trial on charges of under-reporting future income and breach of trust when he jumped bail and escaped to Lebanon late last year. The Brazilian-born Frenchman has Lebanese citizenship. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has made a new public appearance in Lebanon during which he launched an initiative with a local university to help the country which is undergoing a severe economic and financial crisis.

It is Ghosn’s second appearance in public since he was smuggled from Japan in late December to his ancestral Lebanon.