The Board

Ms Hadeel Ibrahim is the founding  Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. She is a social activist dedicated to causes including environmental sustainability and human rights. 

Ms Ibrahim was Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Africa Center in New York, working to promote partnership between African artists, business leaders, and civil society in the US and beyond. 

Ms Ibrahim  has served on a number of boards including the Clinton Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, the Synergos Institute, Refugees International, the Carter Center (UK) and the African Governance Institute. She was also a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Humanitarian Financing and a Patron of youth-led development agency, Restless Development. 

Ms Ibrahim sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Advisory Board for the Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose at UCL.