Mariam Ismail is Geneva Call’s Regional Programme Coordinator. She joined the humanitarian sector in 2005. She has 15 years of experience in humanitarian, conflict and peacebuilding contexts, having worked in programme management and technical roles with INGOs and UN agencies across the MENA region in Syria, Algeria, Libya and Saudi Arabia.

She holds a joint master’s in Humanitarian Action from the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Action. Mariam Ismail is a Somali national, born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Syria.