Our Team

Maryam Z. Deloffre is Associate Professor of International Affairs, Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative and Director of Dean’s Scholars at the Elliott School of International Affairs; and a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group – Standards of Global Governance (Germany). She was formerly an Associate Senior Fellow at Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and Assistant, then Associate Professor of Political Science at Arcadia University (2011-2018).

Dr. Deloffre’s research focuses on the dynamics of humanitarian governance and coordination, the political economy of humanitarian assistance, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and locally-led humanitarian assistance, and has been published by Oxford University Press and in International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, Global Health Governance, Public Administration and Development, PS: Political Science and Politics, and as chapters in edited volumes. Deloffre earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a M.A. in International Relations at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris, France, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the George Washington University.

Eden Hailu is a recent graduate of the MA Security Policy Studies program at George Washington University, with a concentration in Conflict Resolution. She is a Program Coordinator on the Elliott School’s Special Initiatives team, overseeing initiatives on Humanitarian Action, Human Security, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. She holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation, she aims to strengthen humanitarian aid and atrocity prevention efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa.