Nadia Al-Sakkaf is a Yemeni researcher with expertise in media and digital safety, gender, sustainable development and socio-economic policies, democratic transitions, and climate change. Post availing a PhD in Political Sciences from Reading University in the UK, Al-Sakkaf now works as an independent researcher or through the 21 Century Forum, a UK-based non-profit organisation, which she co-founded. She is also co-founder of the Connecting Yemen initiative to advocate for accessible and affordable internet in Yemen, and is publisher of Radio Lana, the first community radio station in Aden-Yemen.
In 2015, Al-Sakkaf established and chaired the High Relief Committee, the Yemeni government’s main body supervising and coordinating humanitarian aid to Yemen. She was the first Yemeni woman Minister of Information in the Government of Competencies in 2014. Before that, she participated in a number of high-level political committees in the Yemeni transition period under the Gulf Initiative.
She worked previously as director of research of the economic think tank, Arabia Brain Trust. Al-Sakkaf has published extensively in the fields of politics, media, and development. She has published policy papers, research papers, and book chapters, and has written two books on Yemeni women’s empowerment. She also published a book collection on the experiences of Yemeni women as electoral candidates, available in Arabic and English.
Al-Sakkaf was the Chief Editor of the Yemen Times Media Establishment for around ten years since 2005. In 2009, she co-founded Yemen 21 Century Forum, a developmental non-governmental organization specialized in women and youth empowerment, as well as media freedoms and professionalism.
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