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Elissa Goucem
Elissa is in charge of Quality Assurance at HQAI, which she joined since the very first day. Algerian national, Elissa was previously based in Bogotá and worked as a Researcher at the Private Sector, Conflict and Peace Building Area of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz, a Colombian think tank. She was part of several research programmes and in charge of the Colombian Guidelines, a multilateral project for the design of business and human rights standards on land ownership and labour rights issues, adapted from the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. She also worked at OCHA Colombia and at the French Embassy in Syria as a policy analyst. Elissa holds a Bachelor in Middle Eastern Studies and a Masters in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.
If you only had 5 words to describe your job
Creativity, rigour, flexibility, comradeship and humanity
What makes HQAI special?
Its ethical values and the clear objective to contribute to positive changes in the sector through constant innovation.
The word you use most during a work day
It's the system !
Reach out to the quality assurance team
quality@hqai.org
Elissa Goucem's experience as an auditor
An auditor's testimonial