User:Ziad abdelsamad/Ziad abdelsamad

Ziad Abdel Samad is born in Beirut - Lebanon

He is a Civil Engineer by training

He worked for a national NGO called the "Secours Populaire Libanais", starting from a public relations officer (1987), he became the executive vice resident after ten years (1997); he volunteered in the "Coordination League of Dispensaries" during the Lebanese war with "Mgr. Gregoire Haddad" and others (such as Hani Assaf, Pere Paul Mattar, Rabih Abiad, Dr. Bahig Arbid, Dr. Ali El Zain, Dr. Kamel Mohanna, Khaled Mohtar, Gaby Habib, etc.) and contributed to its development to become the Lebanese NGO Network (1992),

Ziad Abdel Samad is a co-founder (in 1997) and the Executive Director of the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) since 2000

ANND The Arab NGO Network for Development is a regional network bringing together 30 national NGOs and 9 National Networks, ANND aims to enhance the advocacy role of Civil Society in social and economic policy making processes in the Arab Countries, especially after the arab spring

Euromed Civil Platform He is the president of the Euro-Med NGO platform, a network of 86 NGO from the countries in the Mediterranean following the neighborhood policies and the partnership agreements between the EU and the neighboring countries, co-founder of the Lebanese CSO Euromed platform

National Activities Abdelsamad is an active member of the civil campaign for electoral reforms (CCER) and the syndicat of the Lebanese Engineers Globally,

Other regional and Global activities Ziad serves as the regional coordinator for Social Watch, a global network active in 82 countries worldwide, including 10 countries from the region, the SW aims are to monitor the implementation of poverty eradication policies and gender equity; He sits on the advisory board of the Reality of Aid (RoA) and the Asia pacific Research Network (APRN), A member of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) as well as the CSO platform for Development Effectiveness (CPDE)

Author and Co-Author of many papers and reports https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ziad_Abdel_Samad http://ziadas.blog.co.uk/ http://www.annd.org http://csrdar.org