Dima M. Toukan

Dima Toukan is a development practitioner and researcher with over 20 years of experience in policy analysis, and development strategy and monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems. Over the course of her career, Toukan has led research assignments in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, and the Gulf countries and consulted for various international organizations including CARE, DFATD, UNDP, UNOPS UNESCO, USAID, Expertise France, IOM, AECID, and OXFAM. She is the co-founder and chairperson of Integrated International, a consulting firm supporting development and humanitarian programming across the MENA region. Previously, Toukan served as Political/Women’s Issues Specialist at the MEPI Regional Office in Abu Dhabi covering Jordan, Yemen, and the GCC. She also served as Head of Communication and Foreign Affairs at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.

Toukan has written for Daedalus - the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Global Studies Quarterly, the Wilson Center, the Arab Reform Initiative, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, among others. 
 

Education:
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Languages:
Arabic, English

Countries/Regions of Expertise:
Primary focus: Jordan; Secondary: MENA region

Issues of Expertise:
Democracy and governance; political economy and development; gender equality and women's empowerment