Career
He was elected head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (Food and Agriculture Organization) for two consecutive terms. Highly educated, he was a genius and was considered by many to have been born 50 years too soon. Author of many books and studies, he created the Ministry of Plan in Lebanon.
The Byblos Institute of Manitoba was just one of his many projects.
He died October 31, 1970, 60 years old, leaving behind seven daughters. With the death of Maurice Gemayel, Lebanon lost one of its most prominent figures, a man of vision and reflection.
Among his many projects was the creation of the Institute for Palestine Studies (1963), and of the Council of the South (1970).