Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy
Interim Senior Research Fellow
Sherine specialises in humanitarian politics, conflict and security. She has over fifteen years’ worth of experience in research and policy in global and regional organisations in Egypt, Italy and the UK. In addition to her role in the Politics and Governance programme, she co-leads ODI's cross-institutional initiative on the Mediterranean, ODI-MED.
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Sherine is a social historian with strong multidisciplinary experience combining the humanities and social sciences. Her research interests include state formation, social movements, state-society relations, peace-building and terrorism. She was a Weidenfeld-Hoffman scholar at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Naples. She holds a doctorate from the Department of International Development and St. Cross College, University of Oxford.
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Sherine's research has received extensive media coverage, including in The Guardian, Public Finance International, The Independant and Open Democracy.