Kurdvin Rasool, MA
Kurdvin Rasool is a senior humanitarian leader, policy strategist, and academic with over two decades of experience in complex Level 3 emergencies and high-risk operational environments. His expertise spans humanitarian coordination, civil–military engagement, high level government engagement, migration governance, and institutional capacity strengthening in conflict and post-conflict settings. Mr. Rasool contributes to humanitarian scholarship and policy dialogue, including research on cultural competency in humanitarian operations and gender equality in crisis response.
He currently serves as IOM MENA Regional Coordinator at the International Organization for Migration Regional Office in Cairo. Previously, he was North Africa and MENA Programme Coordinator for a U.S. Department of State–funded initiative, where he strengthened cross-border cooperation and institutional responses among supreme court judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement on transnational organized crime—including human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, cyber-enabled crime, and illicit arms proliferation—while reinforcing protection frameworks for vulnerable communities.
Mr. Rasool has led operations in humanitarian hotspots with UN agencies, NGOs, and civil-military actors across multiple large-scale crises, including Iraq and Syria during the ISIS liberation and the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh, overseeing multidisciplinary teams and inter-agency coordination to deliver protection, mental health, camp management and camp coordination (CCCM), and complex emergency programming.
A recognized voice in global humanitarian policy, he advises governments, international organizations, and media on humanitarian affairs, migration governance, and Middle East geopolitics, bridging frontline operations with strategic policy and academic engagement.
He holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in International Humanitarian Action NOHA (University of Groningen, University College Dublin, Columbia University SIPA) and a BA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Groningen.