Maysam Fadel Allah has been an Emergency Officer for more than two years at UNICEF in Tartous and Damascus, Syria, where she works mostly towards the emergency relief of internally displaced people, evacuees, returnees, and other people in need. Prior to this, she worked for more than five years for UNHCR in Damascus as Senior Community Services Case Worker, where she responded to the need for protection of refugees, asylum seekers, evacuees and internally displaced people. Maysam has started her master studies in the International Development this year at Birmingham University, the major is on Conflict, Security and Development.