Ms Eckart has been working with the German NGO elbarlament since 2020 and is currently Programme Director performing as strategic lead for democracy and peacebuilding projects world wide. Before joining elbarlament, she worked as a researcher with the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin on constitutional change in MENA. Prior to that, she was the Coordinator for all gender projects at Goethe-Institut Cairo. Since 2015 she has been employed with the Danish Institute for Human Rights assisting in the overall management of the MENA activities. Michaela Eckart holds a Master degree in International Law and a BA in Islamic Studies from FU Berlin and AUB Lebanon and speaks German, English, French and Arabic.