Dr. Nagham El Karhili
Senior Lead of Management and Programming, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
2025
Dr. Nagham El Karhili is the Membership Lead at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).
She previously was the Program and Research Manager at the Horizon Forum. In this capacity, she developed and coordinated the research and programming agenda at the start-up think-do tank focused on hate-funding in philanthropy. Prior to that, she was a Presidential Fellow at Georgia State University’s Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative where her research focused on projects at the intersection of violent extremism, organizational religious identity, and civil society. As a scholar of Communication, Dr. El Karhili authored multiple research articles published in academic peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Media and Religion, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, and Media, War, & Conflict, along with sector policy reports. Her academic background also led her to hold teaching positions at Georgia State University and Indiana University Perdue University.
Dr. El Karhili is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (BS; MS), and Georgia State University (PhD).
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
