Sherine El Taraboulsi–McCarthy

Sherine is the Director of NatCen International, a global social policy programme at the National Centre for Social Research. She is an established research expert on humanitarian and development policy, conflict, security and evidence uptake, and has research experience in 13 countries.

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 led and oversaw a portfolio of work on humanitarian policy, conflict and security, particularly within the MENA region and Africa. Specifically, her work has addressed the impact of foreign policy on humanitarian engagement, counter terrorism and implications for humanitarian financing, gender and countering violent extremism, food insecurity, protection, peacebuilding and the political economy of cross-sectoral engagement (humanitarian, development, peace and security). Sherine also launched and co-led ODI-MED, a cross-institutional initiative on peace and sustainability in the Mediterranean region. Earlier in her career, Sherine led research on regional philanthropy and civic engagement at the Gerhart Center, at the American University in Cairo.