Manal El Sharif
2022 ALI Fellow
Manal El Sharif brings to ALI experience leading organizations focused on media, technology, and journalism, along with a strong record of advocacy for women and children in her native Jordan and across the Arab world. Most recently she served as CEO of Imdad Media Center, a Jordanian nonprofit focused on maintaining professional and ethical standards for journalists to ensure integrity in media. Manal served as executive director or CEO of several Jordanian nonprofit organizations, including the Friends of Environment Society, the Jordan Computer Society, and Horizon Cultural Centre, and led both employment training efforts for Jordanian women through the United Nations Development Programme and European Commission-sponsored child abuse prevention programs in Jordan.
For more, see Manal’s LinkedIn profile.