Paola Salwan Daher

Paola Salwan Daher is the Senior Director for Collective Action at Women Deliver. Before coming to Women Deliver, Paola worked at the Center for Reproductive Rights for 10 years, lastly as their Associate Director for Global Advocacy based in Geneva. In this capacity, she oversaw the Center’s work with international human rights mechanisms and WHO.

Paola has worked in Beirut, Lebanon, at the Center for Research and Training on Development – Action, where she led on a project on women’s economic and social rights in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. She was then the UN Representative of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Geneva, where she focused on building and implementing a global advocacy strategy on civil and political rights in the Southwest and North Africa region.

Paola has served on the Boards of Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism, a feminist emergency fund, and of the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, an LGBTIQ+ advocacy and service providing NGO based in Beirut.  She was also a Senior International Fellow at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut. She holds a B.A. from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and an LLM from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law and is fluent in spoken Arabic, English and French.