Lina AbiRafeh

Dr. Lina AbiRafeh is a global women's rights expert and gender equality advocate with decades of experience worldwide. She is an activist, academic, and aid worker with a 25-year track record in creating positive change for women in over 20 countries around the world -- Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Papua New Guinea, and more. She serves a range of organizations in a senior advisory capacity, including the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University, where she was Executive Director for many years. She sits on various international boards - SheDecides, the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, the Global Women's Institute, and others. She speaks and publishes frequently on a range of women's issues -- on global stages and in the international media. She's received various awards and recognitions including the Gender Equality Top 100 worldwide in 2018 and 2019, a Vital Voices fellowship and a Women's Media Center Progressive Voice in 2021, and a Woman inPower fellowship in 2022.