Fouad Hamdan
Ambassador to the Arab World, Global Footprint Network

Professional Experience

• 2006-July 2007 Director Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE), Brussels (www.foeeurope.org)
• 2005 Head of Public Relations, Deutsche PostWorld Net (www.dpwn.com), Bonn
• 1999-2004 Director Communications of Greenpeace in Germany and member of the Senior Management Team (www.greenpeace.de)
• 1995-1999 Founder and head of the Greenpeace office in Beirut, Lebanon; and Communications Director of the Greenpeace Mediterranean Office (Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta, www.greenpeace.org/mediterranean )
• 1992-1995 Press Officer Greenpeace in Germany(member of global teams that developed and implemented campaigns such as the Shell/Brent Spar and pristine forests/Canada)
• 1990-1992 Sub-editor for the Middle East and the Islamic world at the HQ of the German Press Agency(Deutsche Presse-Agentur, www.dpa.de ) in Hamburg
• 1989-1999 dpa Bureau Chief in Bahrain, responsible for the Arab Gulf states, Iraq and Iran
• 1988-1989 Correspondent for dpa in Cairo, responsible for Egypt and Sudan
• 1987-1988 dpa trainee, stationed in Bonn, Cairo and Hamburg
• 1981-1986 Numerous jobs during universitystudies: free-lance journalist for dpa, the international DeutscheWelle radio and the Hamburg-based newspaper "Die Tageszeitung"

Education

• 1981-1986 Master of Political Sciences, Universityof Hamburg
• 1981 German School in Beirut, Abitur
• 1963-1975 Lycée Franco-Libanais in Beirut, Kindergarten till 9 grade

Publications

• Numerous articles about the Islamic world and the Middle East conflict, lately on democracyand radical Islam in that region.
• Numerous articles and lectures on the role of NGOs and corporates in democratic societies, lobbying in the EU, dialogue between corporations and NGOs, communicating campaigns, online campaigning and global environmental issues
• Co-author with Conny Boettger of the book "Greenpeace - Changing theWorld", in German and English, Rasch & R?hring Publishing House, 2001; the story of Greenpeace world-wide 1971-2001
• Co-author with Pierre Atallah of the book "ToxicWaste in the Land of Cedars", in Arabic, An-Nahar Publishing House, 1998; the storyof illegal waste imports into Lebanon
• Fluent in German, Arabic, French and English. Basic Hebrew.

Pls. note that I am part of a lose network of Arab pro-democracyactivists living all over the world.