Sawsan Gad

Sawsan Gad is a Geospatial Data Scientist. She serves as Secretary of the Board and Head of the Program Development Committee. She brings in international development experience from the World Bank, United Nations, and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Administrative Development; specifically in areas of Development Data, Disaster Risk Management (DRM), and Monitoring and Supervision for Fragile and Post-conflict Countries. 

She is also a co-founder of HarassMap.org, an online platform for combatting sexual harassment. Her project was featured in the UNESCO 2020 Best Apps Created by Women for Women. Sawsan holds an M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California, Irvine (2008), and is a current Ph.D. student of Earth Systems and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University.

In her free time, she is an outrigger canoe paddler.