Nadine Moussa is a Lebanese lawyer and political activist running for the Lebanese presidential election, 2014 as an independent candidate. 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 carrier in Lebanon starting in 1995.[1] 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.