Merva Faddoul

Merva Faddoul is a United Nations Global Expert on Youth and Media. She is currently an Innovation Project Manager at UNICEF, where she works to highlight the latest innovations from around the world through TED-like talks. Prior to working at UNICEF, she led capacity building efforts to provide civil society leaders from around the world with traditional and social media skills as a Senior Program Manager at Soliya, an international non-profit based in New York. Her projects included bringing youth voices to international fora such as the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum and the Arab League. She has lectured and has been featured as a panelist at New York University, Qatar University, Lebanese American University and the United Nations.