Biography

Mansour is an Egyptian-American democracy and human rights advocate, best known for his work defending journalists and helping Arab Spring organizers, as well as for his research expertise in foreign policy. Most recently, he served as the Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, where he managed an international team of researchers and advocates on issues of press freedom, government censorship and surveillance, and journalist safety. Before CPJ, he worked as Senior Program Officer with Freedom House where he managed a multi-million dollar project training democracy activists across the Arab world.

Over the past twenty years, Mansour has provided expert testimonies in Congress, published in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, LA Times, Foreign Policy, and appeared live on multiple television outlets, including CNN, BBC, France 24, and Al Jazeera English. He has been recognized for his work by the Diplomatic Courier as a top foreign policy professional and was awarded a Tufts Alumni Award for his human rights work.

He has a master's in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor's in education from Cairo's Al-Azhar University.
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Senior Program Officer for Middle East and North Africa Freedom House.