As Senior Program Manager of the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation, Diana Naoum assists in the management of ICSC’s flagship program on transitional justice, currently helping to facilitate its Forensics Academy and a program on commemorative cultures. Before joining ICSC, Diana Naoum was the Middle East and North Africa coordinator at Human Rights Watch, providing programmatic support to investigative research on human rights violations across the region. Diana has also served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Afyon Kocatepe University in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. Diana received her M.A. in the Politics of Conflict, Rights, and Justice from SOAS University of London. 

Diana enjoys attending Middle Eastern film festivals and learning how to cook the traditional Lebanese food she grew up with.