Hana Salama is a Researcher in the Gender and Disarmament programme at the United Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).  At UNIDIR Hana leads several projects on gender in conventional arms control and disarmament. Prior to joining UNIDIR Hana was a consultant at the Small Arms Survey where she published several papers on armed violence monitoring in the Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked with the Oxford Research Group where she spearheaded a process that led to the creation of the first set of international standards on casualty recording. She holds a Masters degree in Human rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelors degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Her areas of expertise include gender analysis, conflict prevention, small arms control and disarmament, civilian casualty recording, and protection of civilians in conflict. She speaks English, French, and Arabic.