Jomana Qaddour

Jomana Qaddour is a nonresident senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs, where she leads the Syria portfolio. Qaddour is a doctoral student at Georgetown University Law Center, focusing on ethnosectarianism and its impact on constitutional frameworks in Iraq, Bosnia, and Syria. Qaddour is a member of the United Nations-facilitated Syrian Constitutional Committee, as part of the Civil Society Group. She is the co-founder of Syria Relief & Development, a humanitarian organization working in northwestern Syria that has implemented over $100 million worth of aid; she also serves on the executive committee of the American Relief Coalition for Syria, an umbrella group of 10 Syrian American humanitarian organizations. Qaddour previously served as a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, where she covered Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst at Caerus Associates, managing the Syria atmospherics program for the firm’s work with the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives. From 2012-14, Qaddour was a senior research assistant and publications manager for the Project on U.S. Relations With the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. From 2010-12, Qaddour was an attorney at the Winston & Strawn Washington, DC office working on intellectual property issues. She has spoken on numerous panels, including the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and House Foreign Affairs Committee, and has authored pieces in The Washington Post, The Washington Quarterly, The American Interest, The Atlantic, as well as academic journals and other think tanks. She is a member of the Truman National Security Project. Qaddour earned a BA as well as a JD with a certificate in international trade and finance from the University of Kansas and her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.