Amal El Ouassif, currently serving as an International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South, boasts a rich professional background. Prior to assuming this role, she held positions as a program coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and as a consultant in development policies with the office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco. Additionally, she previously served as a bluebook trainee in the Directorate General of Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission in Brussels.
Furthermore, Amal El Ouassif holds the interim chair position at the Faculty of Governance, Economic, and Social Sciences at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. Alongside her academic duties, she continues to contribute her expertise as an international relations specialist at the Policy Center for the New South, a prominent Moroccan think tank.
Amal holds a Master of Arts in EU’s International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, as well as a Master’s degree in Development Studies from UPMF-Grenoble. El Ouassif leads research on forced displacement challenges and solutions relevant to Morocco and North Africa, with a focus on climate change and resource scarcity, gender, migrant and refugee decision-making, border securitization and relations between the European Union and Africa on migration.
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