Salim Aoun

ZAHLE

Date of Birth

15/10/1961

Marital Status

Married to Najwa Sabbagh. Father of George, Salwa, Anna Maria, and Charbel.

Academic Background

BA Civil engineering from Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Higher Institute of Engineering (ESIB).

Career

• Founder of his own engineering office in 1984.
• Executed several residential and educational projects in Zahlé and Bekaa.

Political Engagements

• MP since 2005.
• Member of the Environment Parliamentary Committee from 2005 until 2009.
• Member of the Public Works, Transport, Energy, and Water Parliamentary Committee from 2005 until 2009.
• Member of the Public Works, Transport, Energy, and Water Parliamentary Committee.
• Member of the Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee.

Worth Mentioning

• Member of the Lebanese-Swiss Friendship Commission, which is the result of cooperation between the Maronite Diocese of Zahlé and the Diocese of JURA in Switzerland.
• Former leader of the “Maronite Youth Movement of the Diocese of Zahlé,” which participated in the Twelfth World Youth Day in France, that was initiated by the Pope in 1997.
• Founder and former member of the Board of Directors of the Maronite Housing Cooperative.
• Member of the construction committee of the Maronite Diocese of Zahlé.
• Current member of the Board of Directors of the Anibal Club and former member of its Administrative Committee.
• Vice-President of the Order of Engineers and Architects in 2005, elected as a member for the first time in 2001 for a period of three years, and re-elected for a second term in 2004.
• Vice-Chairman of the CEE -Committee of Engineering and Environment of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in Shanghai, China, in November 2004.
• Member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) in Puerto Rico in 2005.
• Former member of the engineering training center at the Order of Engineers in Beirut.