Was born in 1962 to a Shiite Muslim family. He holds multiple academic degrees, including a PhD in Political Sociology of Religion and Authority. He is an assistant professor at Lebanese University’s Social Sciences foundation, and served as an academic researcher at Oxford University in September 2007.  Fayyad is one of the founding members of Hezbollah, helping to establish its “Educational Mobilization” in 1982, and served as a central educational official between 1983 and 1990. In 1987, he was appointed to Hezbollah’s Politburo, and served as the head of its political analysis committee between 1994-1995. He was then the head of Hezbollah’s media between 1990 and 1994. In 1998, he was appointed as the vice president of Hezbollah’s planning committee, and then as the Director of Hezbollah’s think-tank, The Consultative Center for Documentation and Studies, in 2009. He is currently Hezbollah’s elected representative from the Hasbaya/Marjayoun district.