Dana is a Middle East expert and political scientist, currently working as a Manager for the Middle East in Access Partnership’s Data Governance practice. She advises leading technology firms on navigating the region’s evolving regulatory and policy landscape, supporting digital policy campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and responsible innovation initiatives. She also leads the development of technical proposals for public sector clients, with a focus on digital transformation, AI readiness, and data governance.

Before joining Access Partnership, Dana worked at a risk consultancy, specialising in integrity due diligence and business intelligence for private sector clients. She also supported a security consulting firm with political and security risk assessments. Her earlier experience includes project management at an international NGO in Lebanon, delivering both humanitarian aid and development programmes, as well as research roles at the United Nations Office in Geneva, and at thinks tanks such as the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.

Dana holds an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a BA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut (AUB), which included a year at Sciences Po Paris. She also holds a microdegree in Digital Government from the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and a GovTech certification.

Her interests centre on digital government and public sector innovation, with a particular focus on service design for public services and the use of technology to improve transparency, inclusion and trust. She is passionate about building bridges between technologists, policymakers and civil society to deliver socioeconomically impactful, ethical and citizen-oriented digital transformation. Dana is fluent in Arabic, French, and English, and proficient in basic Spanish.