Libyan researcher, strategic planner, policy advisor, and NGO leader with over 7 years of experience advancing youth empowerment, governance reform, and peacebuilding. Founder & CEO of the Perpetual Peace Foundation (PPF) with extensive collaboration with United Nations agencies, INGOs, NGOs, and international think tanks.

Additionally, Alaa is an expert in policy formulation, institutional capacity-building, youth political participation, and conflict resolution. Regular speaker and representative at global forums (Rome MED Dialogues, OECD Youth Network, MEI), bridging government, donor relations, civil society, and international partners. Committed to shaping inclusive youth policies that strengthen Libya’s stability, democratic transition, and sustainable development.

Alaa is the founder and CEO of the Perpetual Peace Foundation for Development. He holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations and Politics from 2016 to 2019 at APPIT University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was awarded a degree from Staffordshire University (United Kingdom), Second Class 1st Division. Furthermore, he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship in the United Kingdom 2022-2023 to pursue his MS in International Relations, mainly focusing on post-conflict and peace resolution studies at Queen Mary University of London 2022-2023.

• Alaa specializes in IR theories, 21st-century challenges, conflict analysis, post-conflict stabilization, peacebuilding, and empowerment of youth and women in political participation and development.
• Participated in a program at Chatham House Middle East and North Africa program (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) on "Dialogue series on MENA Contentious Politics" in London, (06/2023)-(02/2024).
• Representative of Perpetual Peace Foundation in launching the Arab network for youth in elections in Jordan and Arab EMBs and UNDP Arab region, August 2022.
• Representative of Perpetual Peace Foundation at the MENA-OECD Governance Programme, Youth Empowerment Network on “Youth at the Centre of Government Action” in Caserta (Italy) June 2022
• Representative of Perpetual Peace Foundation at the MENA-OECD Governance Programme, Youth Empowerment Network on “Youth at the Centre of Government Action” in Caserta (Italy).
• Speaker at “Med – Rome Mediterranean Dialogues 2021” within the high-level panel discussion “How Young Generations Can Shape a Greener Future.” Representative of the Perpetual Peace Foundation.