Global Leadership
Rana Dajani holds a wide range of influential global leadership positions across academia, policy, and international development. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership, a Jury Member for Global Leadership at the Tallberg Foundation, and a Global Thinker Member. Her governance roles include serving on the boards of the Alexandria Trust, Hussein Technical University Board of Trustees, Women Lead, the Fetzer Institute Advisory Board, and the Catalyst 2030 Governing Board, in addition to her role on the UN Women Advisory Board for Jordan.
Her work focuses on driving systems change both from the grassroots—as a social entrepreneur—and at the global level as a thought leader. She represents proximate leadership perspectives within major international platforms including the United Nations, World Bank, and World Economic Forum, contributing to the implementation of the UN resolution on the Social and Solidarity Economy. Her efforts aim to promote science for the global good by bridging science, social entrepreneurship, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She has also led the development of the ALECSO (Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization) strategy for innovation in technology for 2030, supported the “Science in Exile” initiative in an advisory capacity, andi launched the Global Diaspora Scientists Network and its associated global summit in 2022. As well as leading the OWSD Jordan chapter she was chosen as a TWAS Fellow and ISC Fellow.
Dajani R, Bayoumi R, Flowe H, Rockowitz S, Stevens L and Awad A (2024) Neocolonialism and science diplomacy: lessons learned from the field and the way forward. Front. Public Health. 12:1472421. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1472421
Panter-Brick C, Qtaishat L, Eggerman JJ, Thomas H, Kumar P and Dajani R (2024) Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan: mapping local knowledge and systems change to inform public policy and science diplomacy. Front. Sociol. 9:1371760. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.13717604
J. Eggerman, Rana Dajani, Praveen Kumar, Susannah Chui, Lina Qtaishat, Amal El Kharouf, Catherine Panter-Brick, Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women: Implications for development and social inclusion, World Development, Volume 170, 2023, 106324, ISSN 0305-750X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106324
Global Diaspora Scientists Summit
