Naji Abou Khalil

Naji Abou-Khalil is a founding member of Noria Research and a research fellow in Noria’s MENA program. He also works as a public policy and political communication consultant, with more than twelve years of experience in post-conflict environments in the MENA region, specializing in strategic consulting for institutional and civil society actors, stabilization programs and security sector reform.

Naji has worked in Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon and the Sahel region with private actors as well as with international organizations, including the United Nations, the European Union, the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), the Agence française de développement (AFD), and think tanks such as the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC), the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), or the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). From 2015 to 2018, he served as a the “armed groups and regional” expert on the United Nations Panel of Experts for Libya operating under the United Nations Security Council.

Over the last three years, he directed the political and communication strategy of one of Lebanon’s most prominent civil society organizations.