Sherine El Taraboulsi

Egypt

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

Funding: Hoffmann

Sherine has two decades’ worth of regional and international expertise in research and programme leadership and is an established research expert on humanitarian and development policy, conflict, and security.

She is currently the Director of NatCen International, the global arm of the National Centre for Social Research and Trustee of the Policy Centre for African Peoples (PCAP).

Previously, Sherine was a Senior Research Fellow with the Politics and Governance team and a Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). At ODI, she also launched and co-led ODI-MED, a cross-institutional initiative on peace and sustainability in the Mediterranean region. Earlier in her career, she led research on regional philanthropy and civic engagement at the Gerhart Center, the American University in Cairo.

She has published articles in key academic and policy journals and outlets. These include the International Review of the Red Cross, the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Development in Practice as well as book chapters in edited volumes with Palgrave Macmillan and James Currey. 

Sherine is currently based in London, UK.