Academic Track (session I)
Speaking
Ms. Anila Noor
Managing Director, New Women Connectors · International Organizations and Civil Society
Sessions
High-level Roundtable on FDI and Women Empowerment
Speaking
Biography
Anila Noor is a refugee activist and researcher based in the Netherlands. As an advisor and expert consultant, she works with different UN and international institutions on designing engagement projects related to inclusion and diversity. She also initiated New Women Connectors, a movement striving for mainstreaming the unheard voices and advocating systematic change in policy debate. Through skill-up training on intersectionality, feminist leadership, and meaningful participation, she inspires refugee and migrant women for improving diplomatic skills and capacities.
She holds an MA in Conflict and Peace Studies from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and an MSc from Allama Iqbal Open University in Pakistan specializing in Gender and Women Studies.