Janoub Co-Founder Mozn Hassan is an internationally recognized consultant and feminist leader with over 20 years of experience advising governments, UN agencies, international organizations, and foundations across the MENA region and the Global South. Her work integrates policy development, action research, monitoring & evaluation, and peacebuilding with feminist and trauma-informed approaches.

Hassan founded Nazra for Feminist Studies, the Doria Feminist Fund, the MENA Gender Clinic, and the MENA Gender Advocacy Hub, and leads the Caucus of Women in Politics in the Arab Region. In 2025, Mozn became MENA Advisor at the One Family Foundation, strengthening regional strategies for social innovation and systemic change. She also joined the International Commission for Equality & Peace (ICEP) as a Core Member, contributing to collective efforts to embed justice, gender, and humanity in peacebuilding. Her recent honors include being named a 2025 Etherea Legacy Leader for Gender Equality and recognition as a global freedom advocate at the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She is a laureate of the Right Livelihood Award (2016), the Hrant Dink Award (2020), and the Charlotte Bunch Award (2013).

Janoub CO-Founder Sherif Mansour is an acclaimed Egyptian-American democracy and human rights advocate. He brings over two decades of experience to Janoub. As the former Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), he led an international team of researchers and advocates dedicated to defending press freedom. He previously served as a Senior Program Officer with Freedom House, where he managed projects training democracy activists across the Arab world.

Mansour was recently hired by Brave New Films to distribute Gaza: Journalists Under Fire, led Arabic-language training sessions for Syrian civil society leaders through the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), and was commissioned to write a policy paper for Security in Context on tensions around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. He has been recognized for his work by the Diplomatic Courier as a top foreign policy professional and was awarded a Tufts Alumni Award for his human rights work. His expertise in journalist safety, government censorship, and foreign policy is a cornerstone of our consultancy.