Balkis Chaabane is an award-winning peace & security practitioner and researcher, youth engagement expert and program design specialist with over 7 years of work experience internationally. Balkis has worked with several organizations around the world namely with the UN, IREX, USIP, MYCP, Politicq4Her, World Youth Alliance, USAID and many more. She has advanced experience in training on human rights and safe & effective activism, youth-inclusive peacebuilding and online engagement programs with an innovative approach in the Middle East & Africa.

Balkis is fluent in three languages and currently holds several positions working as a Program Manager with the African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, Young Global Fellow in Foreign Policy with the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and as a Youth Researcher with USAID in Tunisia. Balkis has recently obtained her MA in International Affairs from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Lebanon as the recipient of a highly competitive & prestigious US State Department Scholarship: the MEPI Tomorrow's Leaders Graduate Program. 

Balkis Chabaane

Founder & Executive Director