Career
He is a founding member and the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Renewal Movement (DRM) since 2001. DRM was headed by Nassib Lahoud who was former Ambassador to Washington (1990-1991), former Lebanese legislator(1991-2005), former presidential candidate on behalf of March 14 Alliance till November 2007, and former minister (2008-2009). Doctor Haddad was the director of Nassib Lahoud’s presidential campaign.
The General Secretariat, composed of 8 members, is the executive body of March 14 Coalition.
Through the 90’s, Doctor Haddad contributed to the empowering of civil society in Lebanon and to several advocacy campaigns. The campaign lead the government one year later to hold the first local elections since 1963.
At the professional level, Doctor 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 Limited, since July 1994 till present.
He has several publications, mainly a book on “Poverty in Lebanon” published United Nations-Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in 1996, another on “Democracy and Poverty in the Arab World” by the International Development & Education Award (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2001. Doctor Haddad is the co-author of the “National Human Development Reports” by United Nations Development Programme and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs in 1997 and 2002. Company-author of “Mapping of Living Conditions in Lebanon” in 1998 and 2007.
