{{Short description|Lebanese businessman and politician (born 1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | image_size = 180px | office = Minister of Information | prime_minister = Najib Mikati | predecessor = | successor = Ramzi Joreig | term_start = June 2011 | term_end = 15 February 2014 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = Independent | occupation = Lawyer | alma_mater = Saint Joseph University | spouse = | children = }} '''Walid Daouk''' (Arabic: وليد الداعوق; born 1958) is a Lebanese lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as information minister between June 2011 and February 2014.
==Early life and education== Daouk was born into a Sunni family, the Daouk Family, in 1958.<ref name=fgroup>{{cite web|title=Board of Directors|work=Fransabank Group|url=http://www.fransabank.com/English/CorporateGovernance/Pages/Board-of-Directors.aspx|access-date=8 April 2013|archive-date=23 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123082730/https://www.fransabank.com/English/CorporateGovernance/Pages/Board-of-Directors.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=lic2011/> He received a bachelor's degree in Lebanese law from Saint Joseph University.<ref name=fgroup/> He also obtained a master's degree in French law from the same university.<ref>{{cite web|title=H.E. Me. Walid Daouk|url=https://sb.lau.edu.lb/about/governance/advisory-board/me-walid-daouk.php|publisher=LAU|access-date=13 July 2022}}</ref>
==Career== Daouk is a board member of various companies.<ref name=fgroup/> He was appointed information minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Najib Mikati in July 2011.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=23 March 2013|newspaper=Gulf News|title=Lebanon government 'does not signal radical shift'|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/region/lebanon/lebanon-government-does-not-signal-radical-shift-1.821057|date=13 June 2013|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222031421/http://gulfnews.com/news/region/lebanon/lebanon-government-does-not-signal-radical-shift-1.821057|url-status=dead}}</ref> Daouk was an independent member of the cabinet and was appointed to the post by Mikati.<ref name=lic2011>{{cite news|title=The New Lebanese Government|work=Lebanese Information Center|date=July 2011|access-date=23 March 2013|url=http://licus.org/liclib/LICRD/LIC%20Cabinet%202011%20Report%20FD.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004234829/http://licus.org/liclib/LICRD/LIC%20Cabinet%202011%20Report%20FD.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In March 2013, Daouk drafted the Lebanese internet regulation act, which was regarded by the world association of newspapers and news publishers as a threat for online freedoms.<ref>{{cite news|author=Farah Wael|title=Online freedoms threatened in Lebanon|access-date=23 March 2013|work=WAN |url=http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2012/03/15/online-freedoms-threatened-in-lebanon|date=15 March 2013}}</ref> He was also the government commissioner at the Beirut stock exchange.<ref name=fgroup/>
Daouk's term as information minister ended on 15 February 2014, and Ramzi Joreig succeeded him in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lebanese cabinet formed after 10-month stalemate|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/02/15/Fresh-hopes-for-Lebanon-cabinet-formation.html |access-date=18 February 2014|work=Al Arabiya|date=15 February 2014}}</ref>
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