Khaled Mansour
Khaled Mansour has worked for 30 years in the fields of human rights, humanitarian aid, development, peacekeeping, journalism, and media at the United Nations, academic and media institutions, and civil society organizations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America.
As a journalist and UN official, he has worked amidst massive transformations and complex emergencies during local and regional conflicts, sometimes leading large teams, as he did in South Africa (1994-1995), Afghanistan (2000-2002), Iraq (2003), Lebanon (2006), Sudan (2008-2010), and since 2013 in the Middle East and North Africa.
After ten years of working as a journalist in Egypt, South Africa, and the United States, he joined the United Nations in 1999 where he spent more than 13 years before moving to Cairo in 2013 to become the Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a leading human rights organization in the region.
Since 2015, Mansour has been a writer, independent researcher, and university professor specializing in humanitarian aid, human rights, and peacekeeping.
He is a member of the Executive Board of Crisis Action, an international organization dedicated to defending civilians in conflict zones, and a member of the META Oversight Board for Facebook and Instagram.
Khaled Mansour holds degrees in engineering, archaeology, sociology, and international relations from Mansoura University, Cairo University (Egypt), the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and Tufts University (USA). He has authored seven books, most notably "Anatomy of Defeat" about the 1967 war (2017), "From Taliban to Taliban" about Afghanistan (2022), the novel "Minefield" (2022), and "From Fear to Freedom," about the life of Egyptian psychoanalyst Afaf Mahfouz (2023). Numerous research papers and articles are available on his website, khaledmansour.org.
As a journalist and UN official, he has worked amidst massive transformations and complex emergencies during local and regional conflicts, sometimes leading large teams, as he did in South Africa (1994-1995), Afghanistan (2000-2002), Iraq (2003), Lebanon (2006), Sudan (2008-2010), and since 2013 in the Middle East and North Africa.
After ten years of working as a journalist in Egypt, South Africa, and the United States, he joined the United Nations in 1999 where he spent more than 13 years before moving to Cairo in 2013 to become the Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a leading human rights organization in the region.
Since 2015, Mansour has been a writer, independent researcher, and university professor specializing in humanitarian aid, human rights, and peacekeeping.
He is a member of the Executive Board of Crisis Action, an international organization dedicated to defending civilians in conflict zones, and a member of the META Oversight Board for Facebook and Instagram.
Khaled Mansour holds degrees in engineering, archaeology, sociology, and international relations from Mansoura University, Cairo University (Egypt), the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and Tufts University (USA). He has authored seven books, most notably "Anatomy of Defeat" about the 1967 war (2017), "From Taliban to Taliban" about Afghanistan (2022), the novel "Minefield" (2022), and "From Fear to Freedom," about the life of Egyptian psychoanalyst Afaf Mahfouz (2023). Numerous research papers and articles are available on his website, khaledmansour.org.
