Dana Abi Ghanem is a social scientist with a PhD in urban sustainability from Newcastle University. She has over 15 years of academic research experience, her work broadly covers energy and society, everyday life, and infrastructure services in urban contexts in the Global South. Dana is interested in exploring urban sustainability, particularly community resilience and access to services under constraints (disaster, extreme events, and conflict). Her research has been published in several journals, including Energy Policy, Energy Research & Social Sciences, and the Journal of Environmental Management, amongst others. She is also a co-founder of the Ebla Research Collective. At ARI, she will be working on water justice in the MENA region.