Mariam Tadros
Mariam is the Director of Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, responsible for the programmatic delivery of programmes, oversight of the programmes team and a member of the Foundation’s Senior Leadership.
Prior to this, Mariam was the Regional Director for Asia-MENA at International Alert, a Global Peacebuilding NGO. She was responsible for the strategic oversight and effective management of Alert’s work across the Asia-MENA region. She worked alongside country leads and teams to implement impactful peacebuilding programmes in Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Syria, and Tunisia.
Before joining Alert, Mariam was the co-lead for Tearfund’s Fragile States and Peacebuilding Unit, working directly with grassroots peacebuilders and local NGOs addressing the root causes of conflict; as well as spending several years in humanitarian programming in West, Central and East Africa, the Kurdish region of Iraq, and Latin America.
She is a graduate in Theology and Religious Studies, and a postgrad of Conflict Regulation in Divided Societies.
Mariam was born in the UK to Egyptian parents, and is bilingual in Arabic and English.