Anaïde Nahikian is a Project Coordinator at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. She also contributes to HPCR's Live Web Seminar series and the IHL in Action Blog.
 
Anaïde Nahikian contributes to the Program’s experiential learning activities, including research and teaching initiatives. She is the Project Coordinator for the Project on the Humanitarian Response to Human Trafficking, a policy research and teaching project designed to assess strategies for improving local and international responses to human trafficking in complex emergencies and to support public and private sectors’ planning and programming activities in addressing this issue. She is also the Project Coordinator for the Project on Transformative Philanthropy, an initiative focused on assessing the role of philanthropists and social entrepreneurs in transforming the international response to conflict and humanitarian crises. 
 
Anaïde is the Teaching Associate for Claude Bruderlein in graduate courses at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government, including Strategic Planning and International Engagement in Humanitarian Protection, Global Health Practice and Networks, and the Winter Field Study. She leads the curriculum development and coordination of the annual Winter Field Study courses for Harvard graduate students, in Nepal, Indonesia, Lebanon, Europe (Moldova, Italy, the UK), and Sri Lanka. 
 
Prior to joining the HPCR team, Anaïde was a Research Assistant at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been a Research Assistant in the creation of two books, The International Judge: an Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases (2007) and Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement (2009). Most recently, Anaïde was a Research and Faculty Assistant, as well as the Program Coordinator for the Achievement Gap Initiative, at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.
 
Anaïde holds an M.Sc. in Human Rights from the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in Sociology with high honors from Brandeis University.