Bassem Jisr (Arabic: باسم الجسر) (born in 1930), is a politician and a Lebanese intellectual. A doctor of law at the University of Paris-2, a lawyer at the Beirut Bar, he was appointed director of the National Information Agency between 1962 and 1964, during the term of President Fouad Chehab. In 1969, he founded with Joseph Moghaizel the Lebanese Democratic Party, a centrist party that will disappear in 1976, not to be confused with the current Lebanese Democratic Party led by Talal Arslan. In 1984, he was appointed director of the Arab World Institute in Paris; a position he will hold until 1990.
Close to Nassib Lahoud, he is a founding member of the Movement for Democratic Renewal where he will be vice-president between 2001 and 2005.
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