Nassim Majidi

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Samuel Hall

Nassim Majidi leads Samuel Hall, a social enterprise dedicated to research in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has worked in Afghanistan since 2007 and Africa 2014, based in Kabul and Nairobi, to inform humanitarian and development programming. With a team of 50+ researchers from across the Global South, Nassim has influenced local to continental policies by promoting the use of empirical research focusing on the voices and lives of under-represented groups. She has written over 31 academic and policy articles, and led over 200 studies on migration and displacement. She has advised lawyers as a Country of Origin information expert and teaches a graduate course on forced migration at Sciences Po Lille in France.