Abeer S. Ahmad

Abeer is a Researcher in the SIPRI Peace and Development Programme. Her work focuses on human security and integrated approaches to addressing interlinked challenges in conflict-affected settings, including the intersection of climate and health resilience and its implications for peace.

Before joining SIPRI, Abeer worked as an Analyst and Programme Manager across humanitarian and development organisations, research institutes, and think tanks. She has managed programmes on poverty reduction, women’s empowerment, child rights and social cohesion in vulnerable communities. Over the past decade, she has analysed the development impact of aid flows in fragile contexts, examining how development assistance shapes governance, resilience and human security outcomes. She has led and contributed to research on foreign aid flows, national health systems, and health governance in the Middle East and Africa.

Abeer has delivered analyses of Swedish development assistance to the gender and health sectors through the Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) and contributed to comparative health policy analyses with the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE). Her research has supported government decision-making by providing evidence-based policy recommendations.