Biography:

Raghda Jaber is a management consultant.  Until early 2008, she worked for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) in Lebanon as head of IT unit and Coordinator of a variety of initiatives concerned with technology-driven reform in education and its governance.  Prior to that, Raghda was national project coordinator in charge of planning and implementation of the Cadastre Operations Modernization and Automation Project (COMAP), under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) from its inception to successful completion in 2005.  Prior to joining MoF, she worked for the Massachusetts state government for 8 years, at the Division of Capital Planning and Operations, managing the development and implementation of state’s IT-Driven asset management program MAssets.  Raghda continues to teach courses on land tenure and land use policy at the graduate urban planning program of the American University of Beirut.  She has a master’s degree in Policy Analysis and Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from American University of Beirut.

 Statement of purpose:

I think it is high time WIT capitalizes on its comparative advantage and plays a more significant role in providing technical support to the NGO community. We have the expertise and we need to mobilize our collective connections to make this happen. We also need to be more active in areas related to collection and analysis and provision of data on women status. I hope to work on grants to realize those goals. Thanks for the opportunity.