12 July 2018
The Geneva Academy is pleased to announce the appointment of Nadia Oulaby as its new Executive Manager.
Nadia Oulaby has worked for the Government of Geneva within the Protection Services. Between 2013 and 2017, she worked for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue as project officer implementing mediation projects in Syria and Iraq. She had previously worked in the humanitarian field on protection of civilians as well as on preventing sexual and gender-based violence in crisis-affected countries in Africa and the Middle East. Nadia worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for Oxfam GB in Yemen and Action Aid in Lebanon. She has also worked in Syria in 2009 and 2010 on projects providing psychosocial support for refugee children and women.
She takes over from Kamelia Kemileva who will now focus on the Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict, our short course on the Human Rights Council and on projects related to the Geneva Human Rights Platform and on the research project on investigations in situations of armed conflict.