Samina Ansari, is the head of public and corporate relations at Equality Check, a Norwegian tech- company with the mission to diversify corporate governance globally. She is also the founding director of Avyanna Diplomacy, a platform with the aim to connect social entrepreneurs from the Middle East and Central Asia to Europe for sustainable growth and stability. She has lived and worked in Kabul, Afghanistan (2015-2021), and actively worked on inclusion in the peace process. Ansari has a background in Cyber Security Law from the University of Oslo and Diplomacy from Sciences Po Paris. She is fluent in English, Norwegian and Dari. Since 2014, Ansari has implemented large-scale social impact projects for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the European Union, International Trade Center, and Goldman Sachs in the US, Europe, and Central Asia with a focus on human security, economic growth, diversity and inclusion, and human rights. 

Participant in:

November 2021 Fellowship: Climate Change, Gender and Conflict

Beyond Borders International Festival 2021: Dispatches from Kabul: Join Allan Little with Eldridge Adolfo, Advisor to the EU Envoy to Afghanistan, Afghan rights campaigner Samina Ansari, Beyond Borders Fellow Mariam Safi, and William Dalrymple, as they discuss the crisis in Afghanistan. (2021)