Amal Mustafa Medani

Biography

As a development practitioner with more than 25 years’ experience, Amal Mustafa Medani has led technical and socio-economic development programmes at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), other United Nations agencies, and international organisations spanning Eastern and Southern Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Eastern Europe, including programme leadership positions at the national, intra-regional, and global levels. Her previous positions have included the UNDP secondment initiative with PWC UK on sustainability solutions; oversight of a U.S. $4 billion programme as director of the Southern Africa Division of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; associate director, head training, Governance Department at the UN Institute for Training and Research; CEO of the historic Africa Centre (UK) for African arts, culture, and policy; senior strategic policy adviser to the CEO of the Global RBM Partnership to End Malaria; senior development adviser for the creative industries sector to the UNDP resident representative for Sudan on arts for peace for youth; and senior policy adviser to the Office of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on solutions to internal displacement, contributing to the development of the renewed multi-partner strategy for the UN Resident Coordinator System on IDPs. She also has extensive experience with partnership-building collaborations, development management strategies, and resource mobilisation with UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral donor organisations, international financial institutions and philanthropic foundations.

Ms. Medani received a B.A. from Boston University in Middle East and African politics and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.