Amjad Saleem

Amjad Saleem

Orchestrator for Strategic Engagement on Youth and Peace

Amjad is the orchestrator for Strategic Engagement on Youth and  Peace leading the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' work on Peace building and tasked with the coordination of the Big Six Alliance (an alliance of the world’s oldest and largest youth networks) and its flagship initiative, the Global Youth Mobilization.   He has worked from different perspectives on humanitarian work, interfaith engagement, inclusion, and peace building.  He is a board member of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and Muslim Aid UK. His publications include blogs, journal articles, several book chapters, a book on "Lessons from Aceh" and the recently published "Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka". Amjad is an alumnus of the US State Dept’s International Visitors Leadership Program and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He has an M.Eng from Imperial College, London, an MBA from Manipal Global Nxt Malaysia and a PhD from Exeter University.  He is a Research Fellow of the Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha and a Fellow at the Sunway University Centre for Planetary Health