PROFILE

Safiya Al-Jabry is the Executive Director of the Small and Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS), which is a subsidiary of the Social Fund for Development in Yemen. She is also a selected member of the Young Global Leaders under the World Economic Forum. Safiya is experienced in private sector development, rural development and humanitarian work specifically in conflict & fragile settings. Prior to the current position, she was the Deputy Executive Director in a leading national NGO in Yemen working to respond to the humanitarian crisis. Prior to that, Safiya worked as a Program Officer with the Enhanced Integrated Framework in the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) in Yemen. She was also part of the technical teams in the MoIT in charge of Yemen’s accession to the World Trade Organization and that led to Yemen’s accession to WTO in 2013. Safiya holds a Master’s of Science degree in Finance from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.