Rana Elbeheiry

Rana Elbeheiry is an Associate Learning Officer at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), with expertise in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, proposal development, monitoring and evaluation, and gender-responsive programming in peacebuilding and conflict-affected settings. Her work spans the Middle East and Africa, where she has provided technical assistance to women-led organizations, strengthening their capacity to design and implement impactful, gender-responsive interventions.

In her current role at UNSSC, Rana designs and delivers training programmes for government officials, United Nations staff, and uniformed personnel on human security, the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, peacekeeping intelligence, children and armed conflict, conflict analysis, insider mediation, community engagement, and the intersection of WPS and artificial intelligence. She works in close collaboration with UN Women, the Department of Peace Operations (DPO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS), Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (OSESGY), and regularly delivers bilingual capacity building initiatives in Arabic and English.

Rana has extensive experience supporting local and national actors in resource mobilization and programme sustainability. She has led workshops on proposal development, theory of change, and logical framework design, and has developed monitoring and evaluation tools to assess outcomes and impact. Across her work, she prioritizes approaches that centres women’s voices, knowledge and lived experiences in peacebuilding and conflict prevention efforts.

She holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame in the United States, with a concentration in International Peace Studies.