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H.E. Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Misnad

Head of the Advisory Board

​Her Excellency Mrs. Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Misnad was appointed Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2024. Before that, Her Excellency was appointed Minister of Social Development and Family in 2021...

H.E. Lulwah Al Khater

Member of the Advisory Board

Her Excellency Lolwah bint Rashid bin Mohammed Al Khater has held numerous leadership positions throughout her distinguished career. She was appointed as the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 2018 and later as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2019, concurrently serving as MOFA spokesperson. In 2023, she was named Minister of State for International Cooperation...

H.E. Dr. Hend Al Muftah

Member of the Advisory Board

Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the European Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva

H.E. Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari

Member of the Advisory Board

H.E. Mr. Khalifa Jassim Al-Kuwari served as the Director General of the Qatar Fund for Development, where he spearheaded the State of Qatar's efforts in foreign aid and international development. In this capacity, he facilitated the distribution of loans and grants to both developing nations and international organizations. Since 2014, he led the establishment, strategy-setting, operationalization, partnerships, and funding programs of the Qatar Fund for Development in various developing countries.

H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Maadheed

Member of the Advisory Board

Director of the Center for Metabolism and Inflammation, Division of Medicine, University College London, United Kingdom and the Director General of the Naufar Centre, Qatar.

H.E. Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Muraikhi

Member of the Advisory Board

​H.E., Dr. Al Muraikhi is the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General.

Dr. Ghanim Alnajjar

Member of the Advisory Board

Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University, founder of the Center for Strategic and Future Studies at Kuwait University..

Dr. Marwan Kabalan

Member of the Advisory Board

Dr. Marwan Kabalan is a Syrian academic and writer.

Dr. Mohammad Almasri

Member of the Advisory Board

He holds a doctorate degree in political science from Durham University in the United Kingdom, and he runs the Arab Opinion Index (the Arab Index) at the Center.

Ghassan Elkahlout

Ghassan Elkahlout

Director

Ghassan Elkahlout is the Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies and Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies...

Sansom Milton

Senior Research Fellow

Sansom Milton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. Prior to joining CHS in 2016, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of York. He was awarded a doctorate in Post-war Recovery Studies from the University of York in 2014...

Mohammed Alsousi

Senior Fellow

He has accumulated eighteen years of field and headquarters experience in Middle East, North Africa and East Europe in development, humanitarian, conflict and peace-building programming and capacity building of local societies....

Hameed Hakimi

Senior Fellow

Hameed Hakimi leads the Afghanistan Research and Policy Initiative (ARPI) at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. With over 15 years of experience in research design, policy analysis, and project management, his research has focused on the conflicts, politics and society within South Asia with a primary emphasis on Afghanistan and Pakistan....

Seán Deely

Senior Fellow

Dr. Seán Deely is a former Deputy Director of the Postwar Reconstruction and Development Unit in the Department of Politics at the University of York (UK)...

Sultan Al-Khulaifi

Senior Researcher

Dr. Al-Khulaifi's research primarily examines Qatari foreign policy, with a particular emphasis on its role in conflict mediation and peacebuilding...

Mona Hedaya

Research Fellow

Mona Hedaya received her master's degree in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action, awarded with distinction, from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Prior to joining CHS, she worked at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), between 2011 and 2019.

Moumena-Alajrad

Moumena Alajrad

Administrative Affairs Manager

Moumena Alajrad holds a Bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Damascus University, a Higher Diploma in Tourist and Hotel management from the Syrian Ministry of Tourism, and an MSW in Social Work and Community Development...

Samiha Tadjine

Samiha Tadjine

Coordinator of Social Media and Electronic Content

​Samiha Tadjine has a master's degree in Media and Cultural Studies at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar and a master’s degree in English Literature and Civilization at Mohammed Khider Biskra University in Algeria....

Wadee Al-Arabeed

Assistant Researcher

Alarabeed is an Assistant Researcher at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS). He was a Project Coordinator & Legal Editor at the Law for Palestine Organization based in Manchester...

Maryam Almustafa Almashhwr

Research Assistant

Maryam Almustafa Almashhwr is a Research Assistant at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. She holds a master's degree in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies....

Rana Barout

Research Assistant

Rana Barout holds a Master's (with Distinction) in Critical Security Studies from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies...

Mohammad Alhamawi

Research Assistant

He holds a Master of Science in Development Administration and Planning from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development from the University of Leeds...

Majdoulin Almwaka

Research Assistant

She holds an MA in Women, Society, and Development (WSD) from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and a BA in Political Science/ International Affairs with a Minor in Psychology with Distinction from the Lebanese American University (LAU)....

Taj Hussain

Research Assistant

Taj Hussain began his career in the field of asylum and immigration law in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a legal assistant in appeals against British government decisions...

Omar Abdin

Research Assistant

As a holder of a double master's degree in international relations from the University of Bologna and international affairs from Johns Hopkins University (Europe)

Maya El Jundi

Research Assistant

Specialized in producing research related to conflict and humanitarian work. Possesses leadership experience in international humanitarian organizations in Lebanon, including Solidarités International (working with Syrian refugees), T.E.R.R.E Liban, Mennonite Central Committee (in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq), and International Alert in the field of peacebuilding....

Sara Elkhatib

Research Assistant

She has an experience on several relief projects in Jerusalem and the West Bank. In addition to her research and field work, she has been involved in projects aimed at alleviating the suffering of refugees in Turkey, Italy, BiH, Bulgaria, Romania, Belgium, and Croatia...

Haythem Dellai

Research Assistant

​Haythem holds an MSc in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a B.A. in Anglophone History and Literature from Tunisia..

Irina Andriiuc

Research Assistant

She obtained her bachelor's degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) in the field of International Relations with a specialization in the Middle East. Her broader research interests include the foreign policy of the Gulf states as well as their priorities in political and economic development....

Juan Cole

Non-Resident Fellow

​Dr Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is an expert on the relationship of the West and the Muslim world within the historical context...

Riccardo Bocco

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr Riccardo Bocco is an Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the IHEID in Geneva. His experience has spanned over three and a half decades on the "Near East", with a particular focus on Jordan, Israel/Palestine, and Lebanon..

Khalil Osman

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr. Khalil Fadl Osman is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He boasts a diverse career and a great wealth of experience spanning academia, diplomacy, and journalism in a range of geographic settings...

Mouin Rabbani

Non-Resident Fellow

A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major print, television and digital media.

Oroub El-Abed

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr Oroub El-Abed is an associate professor at the School of Graduate Studies, the Forced Migration Programme at Birzeit University...

Laurent Lambert

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr. Laurent A. Lambert is a non-resident fellow at Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and Associate Professor, School of Economics, Administration and Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies...

Amjad Mohamed Saleem

Non-Resident Fellow

Amjad Mohamed Saleem is the Manager of the Inclusion, Engagement and Protection (IPE) unit, tasked to implement the third strategic aim of IFRC's Strategy 2020...

Hafed Al-Ghwell

Non-Resident Fellow

Hafed Al-Ghwell is a senior fellow and executive director of the North Africa Initiative at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute....

Sarah Al Khayarin

Graduate

Sarah Al Khayarin's major is in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action, a field she is passionate about. Her research interests focus on conflict resolution, humanitarian diplomacy, small state mediation, education during conflict, post-war reconstruction, and humanitarian financing during crisis.

Sara Mubarak Al Hajri

Graduate

Sara Mubarak Al Hajri has a Master's degree in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action that she obtained in 2019 from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies where she submitted her thesis titled 'A Study of the Practices of Peacemaking in Afghanistan: Future Perspectives and Recommendations for Qatari Intervention'.

Mohammed Al Otbey

Graduate

Mohammed Al Oteby has more than eight years of experience in private institutions and NGOs.

Mohammed Kafoud

Graduate

Mohammed Kafoud obtained a Master's degree in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action .

Muneera Al Khayareen

Graduate

Muneera Al Khayareen has a Master's degree in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Fatima Abdeen

Graduate

In 2017, Fatime Abdeen graduated from Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK with a bachelor's degree in Business and Marketing Management. She is currently a second-year student in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

Dana Al Thani

Graduate

Al-Thani received her BA in Administration and Economics from Qatar University with distinction in 2016, and she enrolled in the MSc in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies between 2019-2021.

Ali Al Henzab

Graduate

Ali Al Henzab is a researcher interested in conflict issues, humanitarian work, and human rights in the Middle East.

Nasser Al-Nabit

Nasser Mohammed Al-Nabit

Student

Nasser has seven years of practical experience in aviation, including flight education and training program management, aircraft maintenance and safety management.