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Nasser, president of Ford Motor Co Jacques Nasser, 53, was born in a remote village in northern Lebanon into an Eastern Orthodox family. His family emigrated to Australia when he was four. As an immigrant schoolboy in 1950s Melbourne, Nasser would hide the Lebanese lunch his mother made for him because 'it wasn't normal'. Today he says this feeling of being 'an outsider' contributed to his ability to 'see different perspectives and have different viewpoints'. He went on to shake up the culture within one of the world's largest motor companies. Not for nothing has he been dubbed 'Jac the Knife'. Fluent in four languages, Nasser's cross- cultural persona has helped Ford develop its global perspective. His father Abdo recalls, 'When he was small he would sit on the fence and try and pick the make and models of the cars as they went by.' And he's still car mad. |