Dr. Bessma Momani is Assistant Vice President of International Relations (2020) and Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. She was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at both the Brookings Institution and Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, and formerly a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Mortara Center. She was a 2015 Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and now sits on its board of directors. She is also a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Momani currently sits on the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) to advise the Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada and other Government officials on improving transparency to Canada’s national security and intelligence departments and agencies. She is a frequent contributor to international media on international affairs and writes regular op-eds in the Globe and Mail and Time Magazine.
Research Interests: International financial institutions, Middle East Politics and Economics, International Affairs, and Diversity and Populism
| Institution: | University of Waterloo |
| Fields of Expertise: | Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Defence and Security Economic Policy and Financial Issues International Relations and Foreign Policy Populism Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | communications@cigionline.org |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Canada and the Middle East Co-edited with T. Juneau. University of Toronto Press. (under contract) Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces through Diversity and Inclusion Co-edited with A. Edgar and R. Mangat. University of Toronto Press. (2019) What’s Wrong with the IMF? Co-authored with M. Hibben. Polity Press. (2017). “Organizational Change in Canadian Public Institutions: The Implementations of GBA+ in DND/CAF.” Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 62, No. 3, with R. Johnstone (2019) “Gender mainstreaming in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Department of National Defence (DND): Lessons on the implementation of Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+).” Armed Forces and Society, with R. Johnstone "More Than a Pipeline Problem: Evaluating the Gender Pay Gap in Canadian Academia from 1997 to 2016," Canadian Journal of Higher Education, with E. Dreher and K. Williams (2019). “Transnational Citizenship Mobilization among Canadian Arab Youth: An Engaged Social Movement for Change in the Middle East” Canadian Ethnic Studies, with M. Finn (2019). “Jordan, IFIs and Social Justice in The Impact and Influence of International Financial Institutions on the Middle East and North Africa.” Edited by Tarik Radwan. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2020. “Inclusive Economic Growth in Arab States” in The Arab World Beyond Conflict Arab Center, Washington DC Ed E. Harb. (2019) “Canada-Middle-East Relations” w. N. Shibli. In Palgrave Handbook in Canada in International Affairs Eds R. Murray and P. Gecelovsky. Palgrave |
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