Our Team

Sima Bahous, Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director
Mourad Wahba, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director

Zeina El-Barrage, Office Manager/Executive Officer
Jacqueline Ghazal, Executive Associate to the Regional Director
Edwin Ngange, Executive Associate to the Deputy Regional Director
Beate Pawlikowski, HR Advisor
Vivienne Urquhart-Charles, HR Associate
Yuna Badaker, Resource Management Adviser
Linda Haddad, Programme Analyst
Theodore Murphy, Policy Specialist
Pierre Hamouche, ICT Specialist

Adel Abdellatif, Chief

Yakup Beris, Programme Advisor
Dania Marzouki, Regional Programme Specialist
Susanne Kim Siao, Partnership and Resource Mobilization Advisor
Mary Jreidini, Programme Associate
Alexandra Regner, Regional Programme Analyst
Madi Musa Mohamed, Programme Associate

Juliette Hage, Chief

Christina Carlson, Senior Programme Advisor
Giuseppe Belsito, Senior Programme Advisor
Samuel Rizk, Senior Programme Advisor
Khaled Abdel Shafi, Senior Programme Advisor, PAPP
Aikan Mukanbetova, Programme Analyst
Nidhi Sharma, Programme Analyst
Maria Castillo, Programme Associate
Daisy Uriarte, Programme Associate

Management
Alia Al-Dali, Manager
Geoffrey Prewitt, Deputy Manager, Practice Coordinator  
Radwa Tarek, Executive Associate  

Poverty Reduction
Gihan Ahmed, Programme Assistant

Alaadin ElShawwa, Local Economic Development - UNCDF

Zubair Murshed, Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor

Marwan Owaygen, Climate Change Regional Advisor
Rania El Masri, Environment and Energy Policy Specialist

Maged Shafiek, HIV Regional Advisor
Alyaa Nabil, Finance, Admin & HR Associate

Democratic Governance
Marwan Abi Samra, Democratic Governance Practice Leader
Munir Thabet, Senior Governance Advisor
Louis Martinez Betanzos, Regional Electoral Advisor
Mitra Moltagh, Human Rights and Justice Specialist
Nina Kolybashkina, Governance Assessment Specialist
Rym Hazem, Research Assistant

Dana Khan Malhas, Capacity Assesment Specialist

Maya Morsi, Gender Practice Team Leader

Communication
Noeman El Sayyad, Regional Communication Advisor
Nour Zabalawi, Content Manager
Edem Bakhshish, South-South Regional Advisor

United Nations Volunteers
Kawtar Zerouali, Regional Youth Programme Manager
Helene Opsal, Programme Analyst, United Nations Volunteers
Hany Nasr, Regional Youth Programme Assistant

Operations and Resource Management
Taher El Sonni, Regional Operations Advisor
Ibtihal El Serety, Procurement Associate
Nahla Helal, Human Resources Associate
Ghada Moghny, Administrative Associate
Mohamed AbouHaggar, ICT Associate
Mohamed Meghawry, Finance Associate

Security
Carla Naude, Regional Security Advisor
Youssef Geneina, Security Assistant

Regional Advisory Committee on Procurement (RACP)
Cyrille Pernette, RACP Chief
Nihad Mahmoud, RACP Secretary/Procurement Associate

RCC Arab League Project
Sherif Gawish, ICT Assistant
Rana Ali, Administrative Assistant

Consultants on board
Hafsa Halawa, South South Cooperation

Interns
Mariam Walid, Human Resources
Charlotte Clary, Democratic Governance Practice
Laila El Refai, Regional Youth Programme

Under Recruitment
Poverty Reduction Practice Leader
Practice coordinator,Crisis Prevention & Recovery
Knowledge Management Team Leader
Energy & Environment Team Leader
HIV Programme Advisor
Knowledge Management Specialist
Parliamentary Project Manager

Ghaith Fariz, Project Director, Arab Knowledge Report, Dubai
Djahida Boukhalfa, Regional Project Coordinator, Water Governance Programme in the Arab States, Cairo
Karima El Korri, Programme Manager, Participation Pillar, Beirut
Maya Abi-Zeid, Programme Officer, Arab Human Development Report, Beirut
Arkan El-Seblani, Regional Project Manager, Anti-Corruption Programme in the Arab States, Beirut