- Antoine Haddad
Antoine Haddad (
arabic :أنطوان حداد) is a member of the General Secretariat of theMarch 14 Alliance (the parliamentarian and governmental majority inLebanon , issued from the June 2005 free elections). The General Secretariat, composed of 8 members, is the executive body of March 14 Coalition.Dr. Haddad is also a founding member and the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Renewal Movement (DRM) since 2001. DRM is headed by
Nassib Lahoud who is former Ambassador to Washington (1990-91), former Lebanese legislator(1991-2005), and former presidential candidate on behalf ofMarch 14 Alliance till November 2007. Dr. Haddad was the director of Nassib Lahoud’s presidential campaign.Through the 90’s, Dr. Haddad contributed to the empowering of civil society in Lebanon and to several advocacy campaigns. In 1995 he confounded the Lebanese Association of Democratic Elections (LADE), a non-partisan association aiming to promote electoral reform, defend democratic standards and monitor elections. He is also member of the launching committee of the Civil Campaign for Municipal Elections in 1997. The campaign lead the government one year later to hold the first local elections since 1963.
At the professional level, Dr. Haddad is an economist; lecturer at the
Lebanese University inBeirut and a consultant specializing in human development and socio-economic issues. He is the partner-in-charge (co-owner and director) of Dar al Tanmiya Ltd, since July 1994 till present. He has several publications, mainly a book on “Poverty in Lebanon” published UN-ESCWA in 1996, another on “Democracy and Poverty in the Arab World” by IDEA (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2001. Dr Haddad is the co-author of the “National Human Development Reports” byUNDP and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs in 1997 and 2002; co-author of “Mapping of Living Conditions in Lebanon” in 1998 and 2007.External links
* [http://www.tajaddod.org Democratic Renewal Movement Website]
* [http://gs.14march.org/ Official website of the General Secretariat of the March 14 Alliance]
* [http://www.tajaddod-youth.com Democratic Renewal Youth Blog]
* [http://www.lcps-lebanon.org/pub/tlr/96/sum96/poor_in_lebanon.html The translated and edited version of the executive summary of "Poverty in Lebanon" by Antoine Haddad]
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