Nibras Basitkey is the assistant director of the Atlantic Council’s WIn Fellowship at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East programs. In this capacity, she oversees project management and financial planning, meticulously tracking the budget for all cohorts. Basitkey brings several years of academic and professional experience in economics and international development to her role. With her passion for venture capital, she is also a venture capital fellow at Audere Capital.

Before joining the Atlantic Council, she worked with prominent international organizations such as the Malala Fund and the Free Yezidi Foundation. Basitkey gained valuable insights at think tanks, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Religious Freedom Institute, and the Iraq Mission to the United Nations. An avid supporter of women’s rights, Basitkey delivered a TEDx talk on the transformative power that educating girls can have on economies.

Basitkey holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and economics from Creighton University, along with certificates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in microeconomics and foundations of development policy. Fluent in Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji dialects) and Arabic, she was born and raised in northern Iraq.