Rachad joined AFAC in March 2011 to develop and manage the content of the initiatives’ website. He has worked as a freelance facilitator and trainer for civil society organizations including The Youth Advocacy Process and The Social Movement. He also worked as a compliance office/ internal auditor for the Belgium NGO ACTED. A graduate of the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut with a BA in Economics/Political Science, Rachad worked at UNESCO as a project assistant for the “Youth empowerment and participation project” in Lebanon where he drafted the youth policy briefs and project reports, translated related policy papers, documented roundtables and workshops, and managed the website for the project. Most recently, Rachad was a research assistant at UNDP where he helped building and managing the Program of Governance in the Arab Region’s online library database.