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Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff

Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff is the Executive Director and co-founder of People Demand Change Inc., a socially responsible aid and development startup that focuses on monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian aid and development programming, supporting the capacity of nascent civil society organizations and providing long-term aid and development solutions in the MENA region, including work in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, and Tunisia. The former Executive Director at the Syrian Emergency Task Force and a journalist with Congressional Quarterly, Mr. Ghosh-Siminoff has spent a great deal of time on the ground in Syria. He has given many briefings on Syria to various international institutions and governments, including the United States, Canada, and Germany.

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Bottom-Up Peace and Conflict Resolution in Syria: Podcast

In this edition of The New Lines Institute Middle East Center’s Post-Assad Podcast series, Middle East Center co-director Nicholas A. Heras sits down with Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff to analyze how humanitarian and economic rehabilitation efforts can support peacebuilding in Syria. Sasha is a Nonresident Fellow with the Middle East Center at The New Lines Institute who has a granular and nuanced perspective on Syria that comes from his oversight over targeted civil society capacity building and humanitarian assistance programs throughout Syria. He is also currently the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. Heras and Ghosh-Siminoff also assess what should be the priorities for international organizations looking to support the rehabilitation of Syria.

Governance

Syria’s Foreign Aid at Risk

Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff is the Executive Director and co-founder of People Demand Change Inc., a socially responsible aid and development startup that

Foreign Aid

A Crisis of Conscience: Aid Diversion in Syria and the Impact on the International Aid System

This groundbreaking report provides a heavily sourced, field research-based assessment on the extensive web of corruption in Syria that ties together U.N. humanitarian assistance providers and the Assad-led Syrian government. This systemic corruption implicating the U.N.-overseen humanitarian aid delivery process benefits the regime and its security apparatus at the expense of millions of highly vulnerable Syrians.

Foreign Aid