Hakima Haithar

Hakima Haithar is the Regional Deputy Director for the Jesuit Refugee Service(JRS) Southern Africa. She has consulted with the University of Witswatersrand’s Mobility Governance Lab at the African Center for Migration and Society, a collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Witwatersrand. She further consulted with the Global Coalition On Migration(GCM), the African Union and the United Nations task team on the Global Compact on Migration. She was previously the Regional Migration & Displacement Manager for Save the Children International. She has been working in the development sector for the past twenty years. Her experience ranges from human rights, philanthropy, democracy, as well as migration & displacement work. She has worked with institutions such as the Ford Foundation, Amnesty International and Idasa. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Public and Development Management from Wits School of Governance as well as a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Migration studies from the University of Witwatersrand.