Fayez Sayegh is a Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat, mission envoy Kuwait to the UN in the mid-1970s. In his youth, Sayegh was an important member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, but later left after disagreements with party founder, Antoun Saadeh. He then completed a PhD in Existential Philosophy from Georgetown University, United States, before then held several academics and diplomatic positions, mainly in the US.