Roni Al-Assaad is the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE). He was the coordinator of the Northern Matn District for monitoring the elections, and then coordinator of the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform for four years with LADE. He previously held the position of executive director in the Lebanese People’s Relief Society, and before that, the project officer at Hivos and International Alert. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Human Rights from York University in the UK and a BA in Political and Administrative Sciences from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Lebanese University in 2009.