Farah Faisal
Program Officer
faisal@ipinst.org
Farah joined IPI as a Program Officer with the Coping with Crisis program. In this capacity, she has focused her analysis on the growing interlinkages between security challenges, development, and environmental issues and on how the international community can learn to better manage increasingly complex situations and crises. Furthermore, she has been involved in IPI’s Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Capacity in which she has particularly focused on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons.
Prior to IPI, Farah spent time working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sustainable Energy Programme and the UNDP Africa Regional Bureau in New York on sustainable development and democratic governance issues in Africa. Farah also comes to us with experience both in finance and marketing. She has held positions at BNP Paribas, AC Nielsen, and HSBC, where she engaged in financial and sensitivity analyses, designed and managed investment portfolios, and wrote market updates.
Farah holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she studied International Finance and Policy. She holds a Bachelor’s of Commerce (with distinction) from McGill University. She speaks Italian and Bengali, and is conversational in French.