Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, PhD

I am a social scientist and senior executive with over twenty years of experience in social and public policy, specialising in the political economy of aid and the ways in which power, incentives, institutions, and financing structures influence aid outcomes, particularly for marginalised groups. I am currently a Senior Research Associate in Politics and Governance at ODI Global and a Visiting Academic at the Research Centre on Peripheral Populations at Westminster Business School. I also serve as a Trustee of Protection Approaches, a leading UK charity focused on atrocity prevention and combating identity-based violence globally. I hold a PhD from St Cross College and the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.

                                                                                                                              I previously served as Director of Impact and Change at Start Network — a network of more than 100 international, national, and local humanitarian organisations — and as the founding Director of NatCen International at the National Centre for Social Research, Britain’s largest independent social research organisation. I have also taught African politics and governance at University College London (UCL). Prior to that, I spent a decade in senior research leadership roles as a Senior Research Fellow at ODI Global, and as the founder of a research unit on philanthropy and civic engagement in the Arab region at the Gerhart Centre for Philanthropy, Civic Engagement and Responsible Business, American University in Cairo.