Intissar Kherigi
Intissar Kherigi is a Tunisian-British researcher who holds a BA in Law from Kings College, Cambridge University and a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a qualified solicitor and has worked as a researcher at the House of Lords in London, the UN Security Council in New York, and the European parliament in Brussels, and is currently (2020) a PhD student in Comparative Political Sociology at Sciences Po in Paris. Her academic research focuses on decentralization, regional inequality and local governance reforms following the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.
She is a co-founder and programmes director of the Jasmine Foundation, a ‘think and do tank’ in Tunisia specializing in citizen participation in decision-making and youth empowerment, and the application of social science research to create innovative social solutions.
The article below, Devolving Power After the Arab Spring: Decentralization as a Solution appeared as a publication of the Al-Sharq Forum, March 2017.