Fareed Fakhoury

Syria

MPP, 2023
Mansfield College, Kofi Annan Scholarship
Funding: Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann -Hope-Younger

Fareed is a Humanitarian Professional from Syria. He studied medicine at Aleppo University, Syria, and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey. He works for the international organisation Global Communities as the Co-Lead of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Area of Responsibility in northwest Syria. He coordinates the humanitarian community's response to GBV to provide lifesaving assistance to GBV survivors and at-risk women and girls, as well as training field responders and developing policies and guidelines to ensure that GBV is addressed in a contextualised and comprehensive manner.

At Oxford, he aspires to increase his technical expertise, professional network, and policy analysis skills in order to increase his global impact as a GBV specialist. Fareed plans to return to the Middle East's humanitarian context to help design gender-sensitive policies in order to stop violence against women and girls and empower them in post-conflict and fragile settings.