Hibaaq Osman

Hibaaq Osman (she/her) is a Somali global political strategist and Founder and CEO of Karama, a regional movement advancing women’s leadership in peace, governance and political decision-making across the Arab region and Africa. For over two decades, she has worked at the intersection of grassroots movements and global power, challenging the exclusion of women from the spaces where decisions on war and peace are made.

Through Karama, she has built and anchored regional platforms and networks of women leaders from conflict-affected contexts, enabling their direct engagement in national, regional and multilateral processes, including UN platforms. She brings a Global South perspective to feminist foreign policy, calling for it to move beyond rhetoric and shape decisions where power is exercised.

Her work is focused on one core shift: ensuring that women are not invited into decision-making spaces but are positioned to shape them.