Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille is the Head of Research Governance and Editorial at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). For the past 15 years, Dina has worked in the field of migration and development in various capacities and in different institutional settings in the Middle East and Europe. Dina’s areas of research interest and expertise are migration, displacement, conflict, radicalisation and (countering) violent extremism. Specifically, Dina’s research focuses on the role of the digital economy in providing forcibly displaced migrants with sustainable livelihood opportunities, the interplay between visual and social media and radicalisation in relation to (forced)migration, and the role of international humanitarian and development actors and other stakeholders in providing sustainable livelihood opportunities to displaced populations affected by crises. She is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.

Her research has been published in various high-impact academic journals, such as Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, International Review of the Red Cross, International Social Science Journal, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal and Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.

For over a decade, Dina served as the Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley.