Antoine Haddad
Antoine Haddad (arabic:أنطوان حداد)is member of the General Secretariat of the March 14 Alliance (the parliamentarian and governmental majority in Lebanon, issued from the June 2005 free elections). The General Secretariat (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 (Lebanon)Movement(DRM) since 2001. DRM is headed by Mr Nassib Lahoud who is former Ambassador to Washington (1990-91), former Lebanese MP (1991-2005), and former presidential candidate on behalf of March 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. He is a founding member (in 1995) of 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 leads 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 in Beirut; 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 by UN-ESCWA in 1996, another on “Democracy and Poverty in the Arab World” by IDEA (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2001; co-author of the “National Human Development Reports” by UNDP 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
Democratic Renewal Movement Website
Official website of the General Secretariat of the March 14 Alliance