Galawezh Bayiz, SBC Programme Manager

Galawezh is a SBC Programme Manager on the Middle East team. She is a humanitarian and development professional with over a decade experience in multi-sectoral project design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation. Galawezh is dedicated to addressing the underlying drivers of online gender-based insecurity through transformative behavioural change programming.

She brings diverse experiences to the team, having worked for the UN, international organizations and local NGOs on cross cutting issues such Gender, Protection, Environment, Livelihoods, Shelter, Health, Research & Evaluations and Capacity Building.  

Galawezh holds a Master's degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Gloucestershire, UK, as well as a Graduate Diploma from the Australian National University; and a BSC in Education from Salahaddin University.

Galawezh speaks fluent Kurdish, Arabic and English, as well as basic Turkish and Farsi.