Pierre Issa

Pierre Issa

Founder of Arcenciel

Pierre Issa is the co-founder of several NGOs, including arcenciel, Association Philippe Jabre, Ecolodge, and Himaya. He is also a member of several Boards of Directors and advisory boards, including Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at AUB, the Faculty of Sciences at USJ, arcenciel, Domaine de Taanael and Embrace.

He has also received several awards and distinctions, including the Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Commander of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit, Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation founders of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“A hundred years after Lebanon’s first Constitution, and fifty years of civil war — both open and silent —, the most urgent need of our beloved country is citizenship. We should be five million people working together to build it.”

Pierre Issa