Farzana Adell

Senior Expert Researcher of Afghanistan

Farzana Adell is a Senior Expert Researcher of Afghanistan, a gender studies researcher and an advocate for women’s rights. She established the Gender Equality Research Organization in Afghanistan (GEROA) to advance gender equality and champion women’s rights in the region.

She serves on the Core Advisory Group for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) in Canada, where she contributes to work on an inclusive feminist funding ecosystem in South Asia. She also contributes to research on Afghan migrants through the Global Diversity and Inequality Research Centre at London Metropolitan University.

Farzana holds a senior research position at Aspire and has collaborated with local and international organisations on women’s capacity-building projects in Afghanistan since 2005. Her experience includes serving as Chief of Staff to the Senior Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on United Nations Affairs.

She holds an MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University and an MA in Women and Child Abuse from London Metropolitan University. Her dissertation examined domestic abuse experienced by Afghan women living in the UK, and her research articles have been published in international journals.