Nadine Moussa

Nadine Moussa is a Lebanese lawyer and political activist running for the Lebanese general election, 2014. She is also running as an independent candidate for the Lebanese presidential election, 2014. She is the first woman to run for presidency in Lebanon.

After studying law at the Saint Joseph University (Beirut) and completing a Masters in International Law at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), Nadine Moussa engaged in a lawyer career in Lebanon starting in 1995. She has been a member of the Lebanon Bar Association since 1995, and in 2009 she was named coordinator of the Bar Association Committee for Family Affairs for a year. She was active in proposing amendments and modifications on national legislation affecting children's welfare, women rights and issues, social security, and related economic and social issues.

In 2012, she was appointed as a legal expert/consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in charge of compiling a working draft for Lebanon's food safety law for the head of the Parliamentary Committee for Public Health, Labor and Social affairs of the Lebanese Parliament.

Nadine Moussa has been an active member of Lebanese civil society for more than ten years. Her actions earned her a selection as one of Lebanon’s top 130 women leaders in The Women Leaders Directory 2013, published by Media Supporting Women, a project supported by NGOs Women in Front and the Smart Center.

Nadine Moussa founded the National Committee for Women’s Empowerment in Lebanon in 2004 whereby she provided legal advice to Lebanese women elected to public office. She has also been a member of the Arab Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) since 2010.

Nadine Moussa founded the Lebanese Association to Prevent Corruption in 2009. The association was built from a core of six original members to a large advocacy group of some 700 members today. In 2011, She was invited by the G-8’s Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative to speak at two forums (Marseille & Marrakech, 2011) on anti-corruption and the promotion of democracy in the Arab world.

In 2010, she won the release of a group of detainees at Roumieh Prison, using funds from the Lebanese Association to Prevent Corruption to pay their penalties and bail bonds. In 2011, she won a court judgment in the case of Saada Slim, an illiterate 63-year-old woman who had been held without charge as a domestic servant in the same household for 50 years.

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