Specializing in development data in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Salma Al-Shami is a mixed-methods researcher with more than 10 years of experience designing projects on diverse topics such as economic inequality, education, migration and displacement, gender norms, discrimination, civil society development, and knowledge-based economies. She is the Director of Research at Arab Barometer, a MENA public opinion research center housed at Princeton University, and is a consultant working on projects related to both social and economic inclusion and protection at the World Bank. She previously served as the chief data analyst on a study of Iraqi IDPs, a collaborative project between the International Organization for Migration and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, where she is currently a non-resident visiting scholar. She has taught research methods in the GHD program since 2019.