Mr. Ibrahim Ismail Abdallah
President of the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities (AOPD)
Mr. Abdallah is President of the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities and Dean of Inclusive Education at Al-kafaat University, where he teaches on human rights and disability. He is also a Member of the Executive Committee for the National Council on Disability. Mr. Abdallah was previously President of the Lebanese Council of Disable People (LCDP), President of the Lebanese Universities’ League for the Blind (LULB), the Lebanese Representative in Disabled People International (DPI), and part of the Lebanese delegation for negotiations on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Mr. Abdallah has contributed to various publications on the rights of persons with disabilities and provided training on numerous related issues, particularly through the LCDP and the National Association for the Rights of Disabled People (NARD) projects. He has a bachelor of arts in Business Finance and Political Science and a Master’s degree in Commercial Law.