Wafa Abedin is a Research Analyst and Senior Assistant to the vice president and director – Global Economy and Development at The Brookings Institution. Wafa previously interned at the UK Mission to the United Nations as a Humanitarian, Peacebuilding and Development Section Intern for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Prior, Wafa worked as a Research Intern at the Mayor's Office
of Economic Opportunity in the City of Los Angeles.