Mohamed El Dahshan is a member of TIMEP’s Board of Advisors. He is Managing Director of OXCON, an economic development consulting firm focusing on fragile, conflict, and violence-affected (FCV) and transition countries; he is also a non-resident Fellow at Chatham House in London. A development economist by training, he has in the past served as Regional Economist for the African Development Bank in Abidjan, as well as senior consultant to UNDP in Palestine, seconded to the Palestinian government’s ministry of planning. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Expert councils, is an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow, and a UN Alliance of Civilizations Fellow. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (Cape Town), and of Economists Without Borders (Canberra). He is a long-term Red Cross volunteer, and has worked on refugee rescue and relief in the Greek isles and in the UK, and, during the pandemic, on COVID response. Mohamed has received Master degrees from the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Sciences-Po Paris.