Fatema Alhashemi

Fatema Alhashemi holds a Master of Public Administration in Development Practice and a Master of Arts in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University.  She has worked as a researcher at organizations such as the Brookings Institution, the UN, ILO, and WFP for the past 8 years. Fatema has recently started managing a startup research initiative called Arabi Facts Hub, which seeks to combat misinformation in Arabic through using machine learning and AI technologies on data collected from fact-checking organizations throughout the Arab world.