Amany Qaddour is a nonresident senior fellow for the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. She is also the director of the 501(c)(3) humanitarian nongovernmental organization Syria Relief & Development. She also holds an associate faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, and the school’s Center for Humanitarian Health. 

Qaddour has guest lectured on various humanitarian, health, and human rights topics at Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, Georgetown University, Emory University, Tulane University, American University of Beirut, Carleton University, and the Naval War College. In 2020, she was awarded the Outstanding Leadership and Advocacy in Maternal and Child Health by the American Public Health Association. In 2020, she briefed the United Nations Security Council alongside Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and again in 2021 alongside Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.

Qaddour has held multiple leadership and advisory roles, including the World Health Organization Implementing Best Practices Network Steering Committee; the DisasterReady Advisory Group; the American Red Cross Board of Directors (Douglas County Chapter); and the Durable Solutions Platform and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Research Reference Group.

Qaddour holds a doctorate in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has a bachelor’s degree in human biology and psychology and master’s degree in health services administration, both from the University of Kansas. For the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at Brown University in its Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.