Dr. Al Zoubi isa Development Economist. She is a lecturer of Development and political studies at the Global Development Department, and Political Science Department at Saint Mary’s University. Dr. Al Zoubi is a livelihood and gender expert for the European Union Delegation (EUD) to Syria. She has worked as Gender and Forced Migration, and Middle East Politics lecturer at Christ church collage and Department of politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford; Researcher at Oxford Department for International Development; and a visiting scholar at Glasgow university. Her research has focused on broadly on issues of gender and rural development, including issues of women’s empowerment. Since the war broke out in Syria in 2011, her concern has been researching ways to improve the livelihoods and food security of affected households including internal displaced and refugee households, especially women-headed households. Meanwhile, she examines the host country responses through its policies and politics that reshape refugee livelihoods and economics. Dr. Al Zoubi is a reviewer for several journal and conferences, as the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS), Oxford University, and the Digest of Middle East Studies Journal. She is a co-leader of At-Risk scholars’ initiative at Global Young Academy, a steering committee member of ‘’Science in Exile’’ project at TWAS and IAP, and a fellow of International Science Council. Dr. Al Zoubi is a core member of Middle East Research Network on Internal Displacement (MERNID) with Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London, and a member of TWAS Young Affiliates.