Social Policy Database

Biography

Hello: Please note that I am filling in this survey not because I am a MENA region expert myself, but because the organisation I have co-founded (the Human Rights Measurement Initiative) has developed a platform for collecting and disseminating information on human rights from two countries in the MENA region - Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We plan to expand to include all countries in the region as soon as possible. For now, across Jordan and Saudi Arabia we have a network of dozens of human rights experts who contribute information on events in their countries via our annual expert survey. For Saudi Arabia in particular, many of our experts are based outside of the country for safety reasons. I'm not sure if data on human rights is one of your interests in conducting this survey. If it is, then please include me in your database as a potential contact point for anyone interested in human rights data for the MENA region. While not an expert on the region myself, our network permits the collection of unique and sensitive information that is not otherwise available. If this isn't of interest, then please feel free to ignore.