Mohamed Ali Ben Yedder
Daly graduated with a master’s degree in risk assessment and management in insurance and banking from the University of Tunis Manar in 2022. He has decided to create a career in which he can make a difference and be a thought leader who inspires others in society.
Daly was lucky enough to be part of the Lazord Fellowship family through UTIL and placed at the Tunisian Association of Public Auditors, where he coordinates Civic Engagement Programs. He has experience in community engagement projects, coordination and mentorship.
Beyond everything, Daly is passionate about the arts, in particular music, cinema, and traveling.
Wiem Hamdi
Wiem has a master’s degree in geomatics and a bachelor’s degree in urban planning. While in college, she volunteered with NGOs, holding positions such as the head of communications and the head of the volunteers’ section. She has also been project assistant and project manager at the NGO I WATCH. Her four years of experience in various positions such as project assistant, administrative and logistics assistant, facilitator, and cartographer led her to the Lazord Fellowship. Through the fellowship, she was placed as a project assistant at the Tunisian Association of Public Auditors, where she continued to work for a short period after the end of the fellowship. Wiem is currently a freelance cartographer.
Shadwa Ibrahim
“Policy expert in the making by the day, Listening to music and reading by night.”
Shadwa’s opportunity to enter Egyptian civil society came after graduating from the Lebanese American University, when she was awarded the Lazord Fellowship at the American University in Cairo. The Lazord Fellowship gave her exactly what she needed at that time, as a fresh graduate living abroad who yearned to work on policy reforms in Egypt. She believes that without the Lazord Fellowship, she would not be where she is today.
Prior to graduating from college, she knew that she wanted to work in governance and policy implementation. Accordingly, through the Lazord Fellowship, she worked as a governance coordinator on a joint project between the European Union and the Egyptian Ministry of Trade. This was a rich learning experience for her as it gave her a macro-vision of how policies are formulated; introduced her to high profile governmental officials; and propelled her inside three different ministries for almost a year.
Afterwards, she felt that it was time to take a more micro-visioned path to acquire more hands-on experience. Subsequently, she applied to a monitoring and evaluation position at Yomken.com, a thriving regional platform that works on solving pressing social and industrial challenges by coordinating with multiple actors through a grassroots participatory approach across the Middle East.
Shadwa is currently working as a policy researcher at the Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority, where she is actively contributing to the shaping of public administration practices in Egypt.