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Amal El Ouassif is a Senior International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS).
She is also a PhD candidate in Forced Displacement Induced by Climate Change at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) and CNAM-Paris and a member of the IDRC-FGSES Chair of UM6P on Forced Displacement Studies.
At the PCNS, Amal El Ouassif conducts research on topics including migration, forced displacement, and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
Before joining PCNS in 2018, she worked as a program coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and served as a consultant in development policies with the office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco.
She is also a former bluebook trainee in the Directorate General of Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion in the European Commission in Brussels.
She holds a Master of Art in EU’s International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a Master in Development Studies from UPMF-Grenoble, France.
She is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.