Samia Khatun is an INGO, Social Justice and Global Health professional with extensive senior leadership, organisational governance and executive management experience. She currently works as Head of Programmes at King’s Global Health Partnerships where she is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of its programmes, partnerships and operations which includes the London based office and satellite offices.
Samia has wide-ranging experience managing multi-country and multi-million-pound programmes, having led programmes in 45+ countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas including in humanitarian and fragile and conflict-affected situations, working with the most marginalised communities. Samia prides herself on her strategic approach to building partnerships and driving sustainable change through an intersectional gender equity, inclusion, and anti-racism lens.
She has managed programmes on education, communication for development, livelihoods/women’s economic inclusion and global health including sexual reproductive health, adolescent and maternal health, mental health (anti-stigma) and health system strengthening.
While her focus has been on inequality between states/nations. Samia is very aware of the existing and growing inequalities within the UK, and she is keen on working to reduce these which is her main motivation in joining Equality Trust.
Samia is also a Trustee of the Hilden Charitable Fund and EMERGENCY UK.