Salma Al-Shami

Salma Al-Shami is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and currently serves as the Director of Research at Arab Barometer, a MENA-focused public opinion research center based at Princeton University. She also acts as a consultant on social and economic inclusion projects at the World Bank. Her expertise spans mixed-methods research on topics including economic inequality, education, migration, gender norms, and knowledge-based economies.

Previously, she served as chief data analyst for a collaborative study on Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) between the International Organization for Migration and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. She is a non-resident visiting scholar at these institutions. Since 2019, she has taught research methods in Georgetown’s GHD program.

Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding socio-economic challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on leveraging data for policy design and civil society development.