Maimuna Mohamud
United States
MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, 2012
Worcester College
Funding: Hoffmann
Dr. Maimuna Mohamud recently completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Cambridge Trust-Africa Scholar. Her research focuses on gender, diaspora and peacebuilding, migration, and human security.
She is currently a consultant advising Saferworld UN agencies (UNEP, UNOPS, UNHCR) and UK FCDO. Her areas of work include research, gender equality and social inclusion with a particular focus on the Horn of Africa.
Dr. Mohamud has years of experience and fieldwork in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa, including extensive engagement with practitioners and policymakers, on issues related to the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ Agenda, forced migration, and governance. She has advised the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the African Union, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the U.S. Department of State.
Dr. Mohamud holds a MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (University of Oxford) and BA in Political Science (SUNY at Buffalo) and received several awards as Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar at the University of Oxford and Arthur A. Schomburg Fellow at SUNY at Buffalo (U.S.).
She is currently based in New York, USA.
