Dr. Maro Youssef is a Fellow in the State Fragility Program at the Strauss Center. Her expertise is in gender, intelligence, human rights, qualitative methods, US foreign policy, and the Middle East and North Africa. As an applied sociologist, she has 15+ years of research and policy experience, including at the US Department of State, World Bank, and University of Southern California. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also a Brumley Graduate Fellow. She speaks Arabic, English, and French.