Rita Chemaly

Senior Consultant, Researcher and political analyst.

Rita Chemaly is a policy advisor  for International organizations and programs. She is a consultant, with more than 18 years of professional experience in program management, lobbying and research for National Machineries, Public Institutions, NGOs, Academia, UN/INGOs and international and regional coalitions. Chemaly has a specific experience of formulating public policies and plans. Chemaly has supported the development of laws amendments by the Lebanese parliament and national strategies and plans conceptualization and implementation in a participatory approach since 2011 from a gender and social inclusion perspective while working at the National Commission for Lebanese Women. She was the executive director of LLWB from 2024 to 2026. As a researcher she has several publications on elections, human rights, women and gender and has drafted several reports on Human rights status in Lebanon to special rapporteurs and UN commissions. Chemaly was the recipient of the Samir Kassir Award for the Freedom of the Press category of researchers delivered by the European Union. And have publications on social and political mobilization. She holds a DEA degree in administrative and political sciences from Saint Joseph University. She also has more than 11 years of university teaching experience. Chemaly university courses are related to political science, advocacy, social media, public policies, gender, citizenship and political sociology. Chemaly is certified by ILO as a gender auditor and has led and collaborated to participatory gender audits in public and private sector in Arabic, English and French. She is also a senior consultant for Gender and Social inclusion for several entities. She has trained in various ILO academies public officials, unions from various countries on gender mainstreaming and how to identify biases and manage resistances. Committed to the cause of the state of law, she blogs and tweets on the causes she believes in, mainly inclusive societies based on human rights.

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