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Alaa Murabit

Alaa Murabit is a Libyan-Canadian physician based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an alternate member of the Board of Directors for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Director of Global Policy, Advocacy & Communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.1) 2)

She is a medical doctor, global security strategist, women’s rights advocate, and member of the United Nations High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. Murabit is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals Advocates appointed by the UN Secretary-General and a 2020–2021 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

History

Education

Murarbit received an M.D. from the University of Zawia in Libya and an MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed a medical internship at Zawia Teaching Hospital from September 2013 to September 2014.3)

Career

Murabit founded Voice of Libyan Women in 2011, at the age of 21. In July 2014 Murabit was appointed a member of the United Nations 1325 Advisory Board, which monitors the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security. She has been an Advisor to UN Women's Global Civil Society Advisory Group since October 2014. She was a founding coalition member of the Everywoman, Everywhere initiative at Harvard University, later renamed to the Every Woman Treaty.

In 2016, she became executive director of Phase Minus 1, and later founded Co-Agency, an accelerator for emerging women’s leadership in security, peacebuilding, and policy.

She was an International Alert trustee from April 2016 to April 2019. In 2017, she participated in the Health Security Roundtable at the Munich Security Conference, co-hosted with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chatham House.4)

She has served as trustee for Malaria No More and Keeping Children Safe, and co-founded the Omnis Institute.5) She was the keynote speaker for the 2022 SCIC Global Citizen Awards hosted by the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation.6)

Murabit is the recipient of more than 100 honors and awards, including the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, BBC 100 Women, orbes 30 Under 30, Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and Harvard Law School’s Women Inspiring Change. She is an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow, and she serves on the board of the Malala Fund.

Murabit is an influencer for Deliver for Good, an initiative of Women Deliver.7) In 2022, Murabit was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She participated as a speaker at the One Young World Summit in September 2022.8)

Awards

2)
Alaa Murabit, M.D. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 22, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaamurabit/
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Alaa Murabit, M.D - Experience. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 22, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaamurabit/details/experience/
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Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz 2017: Babagana Monguno and Alaa Murabit. Munich Security Conference. Retrieved November 23, 2022, from https://archive.ph/eSCam
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2022 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alaa Murabit. Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation. Retrieved November 23, 2022, from https://archive.ph/NVE83
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