Diana Rayes

Diana Rayes is a global mental health research consultant and Research Fellow with the Lancet Commission on Syria. After living and working in humanitarian and host country contexts spanning the Middle East and Europe, Diana became interested in examining the impact of uncertainty on refugee mental health and well-being. Her research interests are in refugee trauma

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Anna Jacobs

I am currently the senior research assistant at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. My research interests are Middle East politics, with a focus on the Maghreb, political economy, media and press freedom, migration, refugee communities, civil-society state relations, and human rights. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in May 2010

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Joey Shea

Joey Shea is a researcher focusing on the social, economic, and political impacts of technology in the Middle East. She previously worked as a researcher at the American University in Cairo. In 2017, she received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in Political Science. https://timep.org/people/contributors/joey-shea/ Follow Joey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joey_shea

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Hassan Elmasry

Co-Chair; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP Hassan is managing partner and lead portfolio manager at Independent Franchise Partners, LLP.  He has 30 years of experience managing equity portfolios for institutional clients.  Prior to co-founding Independent Franchise Partners, LLP, Hassan was a managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management...

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Mohammad Affan

Mohammad Affan is the Training Director at Al-Sharq Forum. A medical doctor by training, Affan obtained his MA degree in Political Science from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Cairo (2015). He also holds three post-graduate diplomas: One in “Civil Society and Human Rights”, from the Faculty of Economics

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Alessia Melcangi

Alessia Melcangi is TT Assistant Professor of Contemporary History of North Africa and Middle East and Globalization and International Relation at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Social Sciences and Economics (DiSSE). She collaborates with the Centre of Research on the Southern System and the Wider Mediterranean (CRiSSMA – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)and

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Federiga Bindi

Federiga Bindi is a nonresident scholar in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace working on European politics, EU foreign policy, and transatlantic relations. Bindi is also the Jean Monnet Chair and a professor of political science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and a senior fellow and director of the

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Noha Sebaiee

Noha Sebaiee is a field coordinator at Caritas, where she leads 20 caseworkers in education reform and refugee integration efforts. She is passionate about youth empowerment and manages educational workshops that help students gain necessary skills not readily available in Egyptian universities. She is a 2019 Bush Presidential Center We Lead Scholar, which intends to give

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