Saja Al Zoubi is a Development Economist. She is a lecturer of politics and development studies in the Global Development Studies and Political Science Department at Saint Mary’s University, Canada, and a co-leader of the Global Young Academy At-Risk Scholars’ Initiative. She was a lecturer of gender and forced migration and Middle East politics at Christ Church College and taught in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford; a researcher at the Oxford Department for International Development; and a visiting professor at Glasgow University.
Al Zoubi is a consultant of women, peace building, and conflict prevention for the UN Women and Global Network of Women and Peace Builders/NY and a livelihood and gender expert for the European Union Delegation (EUD) to Syria. Her research focuses on issues of gender and rural development, including issues of women’s empowerment. Since the war broke out in Syria in 2011, her concern has been researching ways to improve the livelihoods and food security of affected households, including internally displaced and refugee households, especially women-headed households. She also focuses on gender-based violence, education, building capacities, and host country policies that reshape refugee livelihoods and economics.
