Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Policy Council, and currently serves as the Program Director for MENA Policy at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is also a Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of People Demand Change, Inc., a socially responsible aid and development startup that focuses on monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian aid and development programming, supporting the capacity of nascent civil society organizations, and providing long-term aid and development solutions in the MENA region. Formerly, he served as the Executive Director at the Syrian Emergency Task Force and a journalist with Congressional Quarterly. He is also a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy.

Ghosh-Siminoff holds a Masters Degree in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter, where he conducted fieldwork in Israel and in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank. He has a passion for advocating in support of a thriving civil society community within MENA, and advocates for more sustainable practices in the aid and development field that are committed to community engagement through proper transparency and accountability mechanisms.