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Amirah Ahmad

Grants Acquisition and Development Officer

Amirah Ahmad

Amirah Ahmad

Amirah Ahmad is a Grants Acquisition and Development Officer at SIPRI. 

Prior to joining SIPRI, Amirah served as Emergency Programme Officer at CARE, where she managed humanitarian programming across East Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. She has also held previous roles in corporate social responsibility (CSR), focusing on multi-sector collaboration for positive social impact in developing contexts, as well as in food security at the International Rescue Committee. 

Subject expertise

Project management, proposal development, reporting, and donor relations within various subject areas such as CSR as well as cross-cutting themes in humanitarian contexts including food security, economic empowerment, and gender

Languages
English, Urdu
Education

MSc, Development Management with a specialism in Applied Development Economics, London School of Economics 

B.A., Global Development Studies and Economics, University of Virginia 

External publications

Ahmad, A., The Road Ahead: Trends in Corporate Social Impact, Global Pro Bono State of the Practice Report (2021)