Dr Sherine El Taraboulsi McCarthy

Egypt

International Development (DPhil), 2016
St Cross College, Oxford

Funding: Hoffmann

Sherine is the Director of Impact and Change at the Start Network, a network of over 100 aid agencies across the world, working together to revolutionise the global humanitarian system. Prior to that, she was the founding Director of NatCen International, the global social policy arm of the National Centre for Social Research, Britian’s largest independent social research organisation.

Earlier in her career, she was a Senior Research Fellow in Politics and Governance at ODI Global and a Politics Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford. With over 20 years of experience across academia and policy, Sherine is widely regarded as an expert in humanitarian and development policy, conflict, security and evidence uptake with a focus on Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She holds a DPhil from the Department of International Development and St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. She also sits on the Board of Trustees of Protection Approaches, a UK charity dedicated to combatting identity-based violence in the UK and globally.