Hadeel Ibrahim

Hadeel Ibrahim is the founding Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established in 2006 to support leadership and governance in Africa. Ms. Ibrahim is also co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Africa Center in New York, whose mission is to promote partnership, collaboration, dialogue, and understanding between African artists, business leaders, and civil society and their counterparts in the United States and beyond.

Ms. Ibrahim sits of the boards of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, the Clinton Foundation, Synergos Institute, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and the Governing Board of the African Governance Institute (AGI). She is also a Patron of Restless Development, a youth-led development agency. 

Ms. Ibrahim previously served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing, on the Boards of Refugees International, the Carter Center (UK), and the FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards Judging Panel.