Dr. Sandra Iman Pertek is the Project Lead for the “Protecting Displaced Women and Girls in the Muslim World” Initiative. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham and a protection practitioner with over a decade’s experience in humanitarian and international development settings. Dr Pertek has led several research projects on protection and the impacts of forced displacement across regions, including in Turkey, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Poland and Ukraine. Previously she served as Senior Policy Advisor on Gender in a leading humanitarian agency and consulted on behalf of multilateral organisations, including governments and international organisations. She holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham and an MSc from the University College London. Dr Pertek is passionate about social justice and works on policy initiatives to strengthen protection from violence in displacement, including through a Roundtable process in Geneva. She has published papers and a book on women in fragile settings.