Emad Karim is the Innovation and Advocacy specialist at UN Women with a long work experience and academic background in designing innovative and technology-based solutions for development. With more than 15 years of professional experience, Karim’s career spans from the small villages in Egypt to the premises of the United Nations Headquarters in New York in international non-profit organizations, for-profit corporates, as well as academic institutes. Karim works as a capacity building expert of ICTs for the SDGs, Social Media for Social Change, Peace-Building, and Innovation in Gender Equality programs. His expertise has been utilized by UN Women, UNDP, UNOAC, the League of Arab States, the World Bank, UNESCO, UNAOC, ILO, and the British Council. He is the author of the iSurvive: Disasters, Revolutions & Control 2.0, a book that explores the interrelations between big events, humans, politics, information, and technology with lessons drawn from the Arab Uprisings, Haiti, and Japan. He has M.A in Educational Communication & Technology from New York University and he is a Microsoft certificated solution developer from with focus on ICT for development. Karim is co-founder of HerStory, fellow of the International Fellowship Porgram, and an awarded photographer specializing in people and photos stimulating social change.