Sherine is an Egyptian-British social scientist and senior non-profit executive with more than twenty years of experience across academia, policy and practice. She currently serves as the Director of Impact and Change at Start Network, a global network comprising over 130 aid agencies seeking to transform the humanitarian sector. In this role, she leads a directorate made up of four key teams: Systems Innovation and Change, Evidence and Learning, Communications and Digital, and Policy, Advocacy, and External Affairs. Previously, Sherine was the founding Director of NatCen International, the global social policy arm of the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), the UK’s largest independent social research organization. Earlier in her career, she held positions as a Senior Research Fellow in Politics and Governance, a Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI Global, and a Politics Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford.

Sherine is widely regarded as an expert in social impact, humanitarian and development policy, conflict, security and evidence uptake with a focus on Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She holds a DPhil from the Department of International Development and St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. She also sits on the Board of Trustees of Protection Approaches, the only UK charity dedicated to combatting identity-based violence and mass atrocities in the UK and globally.