Omar Elzoheiry

Experience

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  Human Rights Watch

  May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Intern Researcher

  As a HRW intern, my roles included the following:• Recorded and fact-checked civilian reports of human rights abuses in Egypt of 2011-2012• Drafted what are known as ‘naming and shaming’ reports for later submission by the head researcher• Attended press conferences and court hearings on behalf of HRW, and interviewed victims’ lawyers to obtain sufficient evidence to allow HRW to pronounce post-Mubarak “transitional” effort as mala fide

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  Karam Law

  Aug 2013 - May 2014

  Legal Assistant

  Karam Law is an USA-based Immigration Law form. My roles are Karam Law included the following:• Furnished office attorneys with evidence to support client applications for political asylum• Demonstrated precedent of political persecution in asylee’s home country via U.S. DOS and NGO reports• Corroborated client accounts of persecution with witness affidavits, photographs, and medical/police reports• Drafted, edited, and fact-checked (often 30+ page) legal pleadings and motions for submission to USCIS• Rendered certified translations of client documents from Arabic and Spanish to English, and provided live Arabic-English interpretation during client interviews with USCIS officers Show less

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  Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association - EMEA

  Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

  Junior Researcher (Collaborator)

  The Euro-Mediterranean Economists' Association is a Barcelona-based think tank specialising in Euro-MED policy affairs. My roles at EMEA included the following:• Consulted in several research and RIA projects, generating varied deliverables related to existing and potential EMEA publications• Prepared extensive research outputs detailing the labour and migration policy platforms in the Southern Mediterranean, as part of an upcoming EMEA publication• Attended science and policy conferences as a Junior Researcher from EMEA Show less

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  Consultant

  Sept 2017 - now

  Proposal Writer and Project Manager for EU-Funded RIAs
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  Sekem

  Mar 2019 - Jan 2022

  Researcher

  - Conducting desk research with a primary geographic focus on Egypt- Creating system maps of the self-employed sector in Egypt- Conducted a study to map the social entrepreneurship sector in Egypt at the Macro, Micro, and Meso levels (published)—afterwards, invited to participate in 3 smaller projects with the same geographic and thematic scope, but focusing specifically on (1) youth entrepreneurs, (2) female entrepreneurs, and (3) Total Employment Development or TED in Egypt

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  Alien Technology Transfer

  Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

  Project Consultant

  - Consulting in the capacity of a Business Development expert and Grant Proposal Writer for Alien TT- Working primarily with the European Innovation Council Accelerator to secure public and private funding for high-risk/high potential SMEs with the capacity to disrupt existing markets or create new markets