Hind Hamdan is a gender and socio-economic development specialist as well as a policy advisor on trade unions’ work in the MENA. She has a MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development with an emphasis on gender studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a MSc in Management from ESCP Europe in Paris. With extensive research experience on gender issues, she has also been working with a Dutch workers’ confederation as the MENA region independent policy advisor.