Nour Dabboussi is the assistant director of the WIn Fellowship at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East programs, where she is responsible for managing the fellowship’s business development strategy, focusing particularly on establishing partnerships focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She also leads the concept ideation process of the fellowship’s programming by tailoring events and research topics to policy recommendations that advance gender equality and increase economic participation in the MENA region. In her capacity, Dabboussi also contributes to the center’s publications and wider research efforts on the MENA region’s security and economies. 

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Dabboussi worked at the Beirut Institute as Project and Research Coordinator; she also interned at the Lebanese Mission to the United Nations, at the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Public Safety, at the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, and at several think tanks including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles.

Dabboussi holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs where she focused on Middle East security; a master’s degree in human rights and humanitarian action from Sciences Po’s Paris School for International Affairs where she also focused on the Middle East; a bachelor’s degree in communications studies and art history from the University of California, Los Angeles; and a certificate in business analytics from Harvard Business School. She is a fluent speaker of English, French, Arabic, and Spanish.