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Dr. Azza Karam serves as the Senior Policy Research Advisor at the United Nations Development Program, in the Regional Bureau for Arab States, where she Coordinates the Arab Human Development Report and holds the youth, ICT, and Education portfolios. Prior to joining UNDP in New York, she was the Special Advisor on Middle East and Islamic Affairs to the Secretary General of and the Director of Women’s Programs at the World Conference of Religions for Peace International.

Her experience spans the fields of multi-religious collaboration, international gender issues, democratization, human rights, conflict, and political Islam. Dr. Karam also worked as a Senior Program Officer at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), working in the Middle East (Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Yemen), Europe (The Netherlands, Sweden and Northern Ireland), where she managed training projects and programs, as well as lecturing on issues of conflict, peace building, transitional justice and humanitarian intervention. As a Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, at the Queens University of Belfast, Dr Karam was a consultant and trainer to various international organizations in Yemen, Uzbekistan and Northern Ireland.

She has authored and published several books and articles. Her books include Transnational Political Islam (Pluto, 2004); Islamisms, Women and the State (Macmillan, 1998); Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers (IIDEA, 1998); Islam in a non-pillarized Society (TNI: 1996); and a Woman’s Place: Religions Women as Public Actors (WCRP: 2001).

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