Hussein Baoumi

Hussein Baoumi is an independent consultant specialising in MENA foreign policy and EU-MENA relations.

He previously served as Deputy Regional Director for Amnesty International’s MENA Programme, where he led the organization’s foreign policy engagement with European institutions on MENA affairs and managed programmatic work on North Africa and Iran. He has worked with civil society organizations and political groups across the MENA region on advocacy, strategy and political engagement. Hussein is a former Bassem Sabry Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy in Washington D.C, an International Fellow at Dejusticia in Colombia, and has co-founded and led several civil society initiatives in Egypt.