Miss Al Nashif obtained a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard`s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford University. She is Assistant Director General for social and human sciences at UNESCO in Paris. She previously served as Regional Director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Regional office for Arab States and ILO Assistant Director-General from 2007 until 2015. Miss Al Nashif was a resident member of the Rockefeller Institute in 2012, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Welfare Association from 2011 to 2014, and a member of the advisory boards of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Program (UK) since 2007.
