Dr Jessy Nassar is Human Rights Advocate and Specialist in Forced Migration, Labour, and Humanitarian Access. She has over 13 years of experience across humanitarian programming, research, academic teaching, policy consulting, advocacy, and campaigning.

She is currently working at Save the Children International as a Humanitarian Access Specialist, where she is advising several country offices on strengthening their access strategies and developing access channels through humanitarian diplomacy in conflict contexts. She is also a research affiliate at SOAS, University of London.

Dr Nassar holds a PhD in Anthropology of Development from King’s College London, where her research examined the political economy of forced labour displacement through 18 months of qualitative research with Syrian agricultural refugee labour in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. She also holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris, specialising in the Middle East (including a year of study in Turkey), and an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS, University of London.