Sara Chehab & Damyana Bakardzhieva

Dr Sara Chehab is the acting Academic Director and a Senior Research Fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr Chehab curates the ‘Women and Diplomacy’ research programme at AGDA. She also trains diplomats on the Women, Peace and Security agenda and contemporary economic and global affairs. She is the lead researcher and author of the annual Women in Diplomacy Index, a unique measure of women ambassadors around the world. She also writes regular opinion pieces in the UAE press on the representation of women in foreign policy and the WPS agenda. Prior to joining AGDA in 2015, Dr. Chehab served as an Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai...... Dr Damyana Bakardzhieva is the Senior Research Fellow leading the ‘Economic Diplomacy’ research programme at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA). With a dual PhD in Economics from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France) and Sofia University (Bulgaria), Dr Bakardzhieva has taught Economics and Sustainable Development in Bulgaria, France, Monaco, the United States, and Egypt. Prior to joining AGDA, she was Chief Sustainability Consultant for Global Economics and Finance Consulting (Monaco) and Associate Department Chair and Director of Graduate Programmes at the Department of Economics of the American University in Cairo. She is the Senior Editor, Economics, for the International Journal of Emerging Markets.