Peacebuilder and Changemaker

Hiba Qasas is the Founding Executive Director of the Principles for Peace Foundation and co-convenor of Uniting for a Shared Future, the largest discreet coalition of Israeli and Palestinian political, security, business and media leaders.

Prior to founding P4P, she served at the United Nations for 17 years in various leadership and expert roles at headquarters and in Arab States.

Hiba served as Chief of the Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office of UN Women in Geneva.

She also served as the UN Women Country Representative in Iraq, and Head of Arab States and Programme advisor in New York. Prior to UN Women, Hiba coordinated crisis prevention and recovery programmes with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau at headquarters in both Geneva and New York and, led programmes at the UNDP office in Jerusalem.