Dina Najjar

Bio

Dina Najjar joined the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 2014 as a Social and Gender Specialist. A socio-cultural anthropologist by training, she focuses on the link between gender equality and policies; agricultural technologies and delivery systems; rural employment and migration; adaption to climate change; and productive assets, including access to land and ownership, in the Middle East and North Africa. Najjar’s geographical expertise includes Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Sudan. She has also conducted research in Uzbekistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. Najjar is fluent in Arabic and proficient in French and Swahili. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.