Rachel George

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Rachel George (@Rageorge88) is a Nonresident Fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs, and a Fellow at Duke University in the Center for International Development where she focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She has worked in Morocco, Tunisia, and Qatar, and on projects with the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank in the MENA region. She has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and ODI (formerly “Overseas Development Institute”) in London. While at ODI, she helped lead a program funded by UN Women on preventing violent extremism in North Africa (2018-2020).

Her work has been published in outlets including Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Human Rights Review, Think Global Health, and as chapters in The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perception and Misperception, Opportunities and Perils, and The Routledge History of Human Rights. Her forthcoming book explores the intersections of development and diplomacy. She holds a BA in Politics and French from Princeton University, an MA in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Rachel is also on LinkedIn.