Senior Research Officer and Specialist for the Middle East & North Africa

Panthea is a Senior Research Officer and Specialist for the Middle East & North Africa at GNWP. She is a master’s student at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and holds a honours Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations.

Her research and professional interests lie in gender, peace and security, technology, and global tech governance. She is especially interested in the applications of emerging and cutting-edge technologies to conflict settings, peace processes, and peacebuilding. She has previously published on the role of ICTs in women-led peacebuilding, technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women peacebuilders, and global digital governance. Her current research explores gender and cybersecurity, and women-led peacebuilding in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Lebanon.

In 2021, she was the recipient of the Jean Laponce Memorial Prize for her undergraduate thesis on rebel governance. In her previous work, Panthea developed resources for CSOs and NGOs to facilitate the meaningful representation of youth, particularly racialized and gender-diverse youth, at high-level political fora.

Panthea is fluent in English and Farsi (Persian), and is currently learning Arabic.

panthea@gnwp.org