Samah Hadid

Samah Hadid is the National Director of The Global Poverty Project. She has campaigned widely on social justice and women’s rights issues.

Samah was selected as the 2010 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and completed a fellowship with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her advisory roles have included Youth Representative on the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, member of Amnesty International’s Diversity Steering Committee and a member of the UN Expert Meeting Group on Youth. She has been listed as one of “50 women we must admire” by the Herald Sun, and voted as one of the top 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Institute.