Prof. Azza Karam is President and CEO of Lead Integrity – the first global women-of-faith-led consultancy dedicated to serving the common good, including through a unique Roster of experts on human rights, peace and security, humanitarian relief, and international development. As a professor in the Department of World Affairs, she is the Director of the Kahane United Nations Program, at Occidental College. She is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, after two decades of serving within the UN system. She has served in multiple leadership positions in international organisations. An author with translated works in multiple languages, she was awarded an Honorary Degree by John Cabot University in 2022, was an awardee of the International Religious Liberty Association in 2023, and is this year’s recipient of the Tanenbaum Foundation Award for Inter-religious Understanding. She continues to serve, analyse and study, multiple global initiatives as part of her expertise on the nexus between human rights, international affairs, and religion and politics.
