Misbah Ahdab

Misbah Ahdab is currently Member of the Lebanese Parliament in the Finance and Budget Committee, as well as the Defense Committee. In 1992, he was appointed as Honorary Consul of France in Lebanon, until 1996, when he was elected for his fi rst term in the Lebanese Parliament. He Mr Ahdab is Vice-president of the cross confessional Democratic Renewal Movement that he co-founded in 2001 with MP Nassib Lahoud and other politicians. He is also President of the Lebanese-Italian Friendship Association.

Mr Ahdab was the first Muslim Sunnite to attend the Bristol Gathering in 23rd September 2004 and has participated in many conferences and presentations including the Workshop at the World Bank in Rabat, Morocco. In 2006, he was speaker at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, also at the Middle East Institute and the Wilson Center. In 2007, he participated in Madrid+15 and in 2007, he participated as a panelist at the World Economic Forum, in Jordan.