Khalid Ibrahim

Khalid Ibrahim is the Executive Director of the Gulf Centre for human rights in charge of management, programme development, fundraising and training. He is an Iraqi human right defender with decades of experience in the human rights field, including more than ten years in Dublin as a co-staff of Front Line Defenders. He works on human rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2001. In 2011, he decided to focus on human rights in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries. He co-founded the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR).

He has a BSc in Physics from Iraq, MSc in Health Informatics from Trinity College in Dublin, and is a PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin on the use of new technologies to promote human rights in the MENA region. He is a certified specialist in the field of human rights with an interest in the use of digital technologies to enhance the protection of human rights in the MENA region.

He hopes to be the voice of all members of IFEX by ensuring that they have the required support that they may need as they do their peaceful and legitimate work in defending the right to freedom of expression.