Marie Helena Abou Jaoude is a Project and Communications Officer at Data-Pop Alliance. She holds an LBB from La Sagesse University in Beirut and she previously worked as a Research and Administrative Assistant in the United Nations ESCWA on intellectual property rights and open government and she also completed an internship in the legal department in UNHCR. She also holds certificates in Public Policy, Homeland Security and Genomics for law. Her interests revolve around policy making and policy implementation in international security, criminology, privacy and technology fields.