Ghassan E. Moukhayber
www.ghassanmoukheiber.com
gem@inco.com.lb
Office No.: 961-1-331210
961-4-871311
Fax No.: 961-4-972705

Member of the Lebanese Parliament (Metn District), since October 2002. Member of the “Change and Reform” parliamentary group.

- Rapporteur of the parliamentary Human Rights Committee
- Member of the parliamentary finance Committee.

Mr. Moukheiber is member of a number of regional and international parliamentary associations, particularly:

- Member of the “Parliamentary Network on the World Bank” (PNoWB) where he acts as steering committee chairman of the Arab Chapter of this international organization.
- Member of the “Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption” (GOPAC) where he acts as treasurer of the Arab Chapter of this international organization.
- Board member of the e-parliament, an organization focusing on the development of worldwide democracy.

Attorney-At-Law with the Beirut Bar Association (since 1981):

- LL.M. '83 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA).
- Law Licence ‘81, St-Joseph University Law School, Beirut, Lebanon;
- Enrolled in the Doctorate program of the Paris II Law School (1989). Dissertation interrupted.
- Co-founder and partner of “Hatem, Kairouz, Moukheiber & Messihi” Law Firm. Since a deputy, Mr. Moukheiber has practically frozen his professional legal practice to concentrate on politics and civil society involvement.

Long-time civil society activist, mainly within the areas of human rights, anti-corruption, democratization, the rule of law, environment and heritage protection. Mr. Moukheiber still acts as board member of the “Association for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms”; in the latter capacity, he also acts as coordinator of the “Arab Initiative for the Freedom of Association” www.arabifa.org. Other organizations co-founded by Mr. Moukheiber are:

- “Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE)”;
- “Lebanese Transparency Association – Laa Fassaad”;
- “Lebanon Conflict Resolution Network (LCRN)”;
- “National Heritage Foundation”
- “Group for the protection of the Kadisha Valley”
- “Group for the protection of the Beirut Valley”
- “Al-Bustan International Festival of Performing Arts”.

Mr. Moukheiber was also member of the governing bodies of the following organizations:

- Rapporteur for the Beirut Bar Association’s “Human Rights Committee”
- The Balamand University’s “Observatory of Inter-Religious Community Relations”.
- The Lebanese Bankers Association’s legal committee,
- The International Executive Committee of the “World Alliance of the YMCAs” (Geneva)
- The “Scouts Du Liban”.

University Lecturer
- Currently, lecturer at the St. Joseph University’s faculty of Law and political science in Beirut, teaching a seminar on human rights. .
- He has taught a number of courses and seminars on conflict resolution, arbitration and mediation at a number of universities (USEK, AUB, USJ) as well as in a number of specialized public and private workshops (since 1985).
- Mr. Moukheiber has lectured, written and published extensively about the subjects covered by the areas of his civil society/political involvements, e.g. various aspects of human rights, particularly about freedom of association, the rule of law, the judiciary and its independence, electoral systems, democracy, civil society and anti-corruption measures, protection of environment and heritage and, most recently, about parliamentary reform.

Personal:

- Single, born December 8, 1958 in Beit-Mery, Lebanon.
- Graduated from the Grand Lycee school in Beirut - Mission Laique Francaise (1963-1975) and the Freres Mont-la-Salle – Ain Saade (1976).