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Leading WES’s work with employers, employer-facing organizations, municipal and regional actors to build awareness, socialize and create solutions, strategies and new tools related to the recruitment, retention, and reskilling of refugees and immigrants.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed and implemented core programmatic initiatives, expanding network by over 60 partners from Canada and multiple countries.
• Developed and managed global communications strategy for traditional media, web and social media, including eight high production value videos and awareness raising activities in nine countries.
• Engaged with Canada’s business community as part of a project of the P.E. Trudeau Foundation called "The Diversity Dividend: Canada's Global Advantage," to explore linkages between diverse workforce and economic.
• Developed collaborative domestic and international partnerships including the Open Society Foundations, EPIM and Welcoming International, to establish a communications hub for migration and refugee experts in Europe.
• Assisted and supported civil society organizations and social enterprises implement human rights and refugee-supporting projects in several countries, through training, capacity-building, and networking.
• Designed and managed grant-making processes for social entrepreneurs which entailed submissions eligibility, fact-finding and verification, due diligence, preparation of decision reports, and adjudication.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Contributed knowledge on migration and integration at five conferences and panels, including at the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs and the World Bank.
• Established and supported an Experts Advisory Committee composed of 39 members from 13 countries including scholars, government representatives and experts from international organizations.
• Collaborated with the World Bank KNOMAD project in the thematic area of Managing Return Migration for Development, contributing a paper on Host Society Integration as a Development Vector.
• Developed, facilitated and marketed a professional development program for senior executives on migration management. Some clients included the World Bank, the International Organization for Migration and the.

• Developed and managed corporate partnerships with the BMW Group and Education First, helping those craft projects to support organizations advancing intercultural cooperation and socio-economic integration of migrants.
• Developed and managed interculturalleaders.org to strengthen more than 400 grantees capacities, providing platform to share skills and knowledge and build relationships with a group of 50 corporate partner volunteers.
• Co-organized two UN Global forums in Qatar and Austria, for more than 5,000 participants, including more than 100 panelists.
• Strengthened departmental relationships with senior policymakers, civil society organizations, and international organizations and corporations.
• Managed USD 1.5 million annual budget and raised USD 3.5 million for other programmatic initiatives.

- Organized a thematic debate and international workshop on migration and integration in Australia.- Managed relationships with stakeholders and conducted outreach to countries and international organizations.- Established more than 20 new relevant partnerships for the migration and integration programme.

Granada, Spain

• Provided policy advice on religious minorities rights.
• Identified topics and speakers for international conference on freedom of religion.
• Conducted research on multiculturalism and integration of newcomers to Canada.

• Organized and directed an International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue.
• Conducted research on migrants and citizenship education.
• Taught comparative religions and citizenship education.
• Guest lectured in courses in other departments and universities across Spain.
• Developed online tutorials.- Elaborated a new plan for studies.

• Assisted in the arrangement of conferences with international scholars and civil society activists.
• Provided administrative, budgetary and programming support.
• Collaborated with the ‘Institute des Belles Lettres Arabes’ (IBLA).

- Developed, implemented and review programmes on youth, migration, diversity and culture.- Coordinated over 20 volunteers.- Wrote European Commission grant proposals.- Organized intercultural exchanges for youth across Spain.- Organized workshops for youth at risk and migrant youth.- Organize bi-annual work camps for volunteers;- Assist different.

Master'S Degree, Conflict Studies

Magna cum Laude La Caixa Foundation Fellow 2009-2011

Post-Graduate Certificate, Islamic Studies

Professional Expert in Islamic Culture and Religion Spanish National Distance University (50 credits ECTS)

Bachelor'S Degree, Humanities

Suma Cum Laude