Schlager Visiting Fellow Shaden Khallaf

Shaden Khallaf is an advocate for human dignity and women’s empowerment and an international expert in humanitarian and development affairs, public policy, strategic partnership, and climate action. Her career has spanned over two decades in the United Nations, extensive experience in academia, and most recently one of the largest private sector technology companies in the world. Khallaf currently heads public policy for North Africa at Meta, after having been the senior policy advisor for the Middle East and North Africa at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Khallaf has been a fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and has lectured in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy of the American University in Cairo, and at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan. She has consistently bridged academic research with practitioner know-how for inclusive and sustainable public policy, including through numerous publications and extensive public seminars. Khallaf was selected among “100 AUC Alumni of the Century,” as well as a “Women of Egypt Hero,” and chosen among “365 Inspiring Arab Women” by Women in Business Arabia.