Phoebe Rison

Phoebe Rison

Phoebe Rison is the advocacy officer at Sabeel-Kairos, focusing on BDS and Morally Responsible Investment and a director of Embrace the Middle East Trading Ltd.

She has worked on humanitarian, development, human rights and advocacy programmes in Palestine for over 11 years, specialising in economy and livelihoods, previously as Country Director for IoPt at Christian Aid and well as humanitarian response at DFID.

Of Palestinian origin, Phoebe grew up helping her mother and grandmother in the kitchen and is a keen cook, running has a food blog promoting Palestinian food, culture and crafts.

She lives with her husband and young sons in Buckinghamshire.