Vian Ahmed Sadiq is an Iraqi-Kurdish activist and humanitarian leader with 6 years of experience in the humanitarian field in leadership roles. She is currently working as a Regional Director at the Lotus Flower NGO that empowers women and girls, particularly Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and refugee communities. Throughout her experiences, she has taken the role of managing and leading various humanitarian staff members in direct response to humanitarian crises in the region starting with the ISIS invasion of Iraq in 2014 and the conflict in Syrian that led to the displacement of thousand Syrian refugees to Iraq and more recently the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. While providing any kind of intervention, Vian ensures that she alongside her team are striving for a world where women and girls are dignified, safe, have access to education and are empowered to participate in their communities, and are able to drive social and economic change.

Participant in: November/December 2020 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes