Join the LSE Middle East Centre for this student careers panel and reception, with an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia and research, the charity sector, law and consultancy in/around the Middle East.

The panellists will share honest insights on getting into their fields. This will also be an opportunity to meet LSE Middle East Centre staff and researchers, and find out more about the Centre's activities and opportunities. 

Meet our speakers and chair

Eyad Hamid is PhD in History candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2024). He also holds a DDS from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Damascus University (2008). Eyad joined the Human Rights and Business Unit (HRBU) at SLDP in May 2020. His role includes researching and monitoring the Syrian business scene for human rights violations and promoting accountability. His expertise includes extensive work and research on Syria sanctions regulations and how to use them as an accountability tool for human rights abuses. He also worked on advocating for the adoption of Human Rights Due diligence in humanitarian operations in Syria, especially with the UN. Eyad is also engaged in promoting human rights-compliant practices among businesses operating in Syria, especially in the field of Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) rights. Before joining SLDP, Eyad worked as a politics journalist for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper between 2017-2020. Eyad is fluent in Arabic and English and intermediate in Turkish and French.

Tiziana Leone is Professor in Health and International Development and Deputy Head of Department at the Department of International Development, LSE. Tiziana’s research agenda is focused around maternal and reproductive health, including a lifecourse approach to women’s health. Before working in academia she was a statistician in the UN Statistics Division where she coordinated technical cooperation on census and civil registration data collection in Low Income Countries. She focuses on the secondary analyses of data sources in innovative ways in order to construct longitudinal analysis in datasets where only cross-sectional data are available (e.g.: User fees work in SAA and Palestinian data projects). She has held several grants which included international collaborations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Clare Woodcraft is Executive Director, Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Clare has over 25 years of experience working in the field of socio-economic development and philanthropy in emerging markets. She is the former CEO of Emirates Foundation, the national foundation of the UAE. Earlier she served as the Deputy Director of Shell Foundation, a leader in the philanthropic sector whose business model entails building scalable social enterprises to address global development challenges, otherwise known as enterprise-based philanthropy. Prior to this she was the Regional Director of Communications for Royal Dutch Shell in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously she worked as the Finance Editor of Middle East Economic Survey, a specialised energy journal reporting on socio-economic development related to oil economies. A fluent Arabic and French speaker, she has a BA in Modern Languages and a MSc in Development from LSE.

Katerina Dalacoura is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre and Associate Professor in International Relations, Department of International Relations at LSE. Dr Dalacoura’s work has centered on the intersection of Islamism and international human rights norms. She has worked on human rights, democracy and democracy promotion, in the Middle East, particularly in the context of Western policies in the region.