Until switching to work on Syria file with the United Nations in 2012, I  acted as Senior Adviser to the UNDP/Office on Consensus Building, Constitutional Empowerment and Civil Peace providing relevant expertise in the field of security and defense policy development, and Lebanese national dialogue and peace processes. I bring with me a diverse professional background and a rich history of involvement in Lebanon’s past negotiations and peace processes. As founder and first Secretary General of the Foundation for Permanent Civil Peace (LFPCP) in 1987, I organized national dialogue and reconciliation encounters in the 1980’s and 1990’s in Cyprus, Greece, Switzerland and Lebanon. In 2007, I contributed to the set-up and organization of the Inter-Lebanese Dialogue that took place in Switzerland.

Prior to moving to Switzerland in the early 1990’s, I worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon and was Director of Emergency Services with the Lebanese Red Cross. In Switzerland, I was Assistant Director for Operations with the Welfare Association - Geneva, Head of Sub-Office with UNHCR Iraq, Deputy Director for Elections, Human Rights and Democratization with the OSCE Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Director a.i. of the Middle East and North Africa Department with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Regional Civil Administrator at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and a Program Manager for Kosovo, Good Governance and then Palestine at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). 

In 2008 and 2009 I opened and managed Beirut Office of  theGeneva Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) with overall responsibility of assisting in developing its Middle East & North Africa Program .
I observed elections in Bosnia& Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Northern Macedonia, Haiti, Bulgaria,Hungaria, Czech Republic, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen