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Dr. Sara Chehab is a Senior Research Fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Dr. Chehab founded and curates the “Women and Diplomacy” research program at AGDA. In addition, she trains diplomats on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, feminist foreign policy, and contemporary global and economic affairs.

Dr. Chehab’s research interests and publications revolve around gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy and gendered economic development. She is the author and lead researcher of the annual Women in Diplomacy Index, a unique index that tracks the percentage share 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 this role, Dr. Chehab was Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Dubai, where she received a Teaching Excellence Award in 2014. Dr Chehab received her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware in the US. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and International Relations from the same university, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy from the Lebanese American University (LAU), in Lebanon.