Impact
I have one mission: to build the financing, policy, and institutions that ensure mothers survive, children thrive, and women lead the peace.
I imagine and build what no one else thinks to, in the places they've written off, for the people they've written off.
Every number on this page is a person. A mother who made it through delivery. A child who got vaccinated. A woman who walked into a room where the decisions were being made — and changed what came out of it.
Founded Voice of Libyan Women (2011). Created For Mama in 2023 — the first zakat-certified collaborative for maternal and child health, now used by 50+ organizations every Ramadan. Conceived and built The Beginnings Fund — a $600M+ collaborative reaching 34 million mothers and babies.
Co-architected the Sustainable Development Goals. UN High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment and Economic Growth. Lancet-Georgetown Commissioner on Faith, Trust and Health.
$40
Billion+
Capital Mobilized
9
Million+
TED TALK VIEWS
193
Countries
Impacted
4
UN
RESOLUTIONS
SHAPED
$1
Billion+
Directly Managed
We are closer than most people realize to a world that works for the people it currently fails.
Dr. Alaa Murabit
What Changed
Initiatives & Outcomes
A turning point
in inclusive security
& peacebuilding
I founded Voice of Libyan Women at 21, in the middle of the Libyan revolution, and built a women's movement in a country that had outlawed one. We launched the Noor Campaign across Libya, pioneering a faith-rooted approach to inclusive security that has since been replicated internationally.
Voice of Libyan Women
Founded · Peace & Security · Women's Leadership · FAITH-ALIGNED ADVOCACY, POLICY & MOVEMENT BUILDING
“Human Rights Watch called VLW’s work a “turning point in women’s rights globally.” The methodology has since been adopted across multiple countries and conflict settings.”
Created the First Zakat-Certified
Collaborative
for Maternal & Child Health
$125M+ Mobilized
50+ Organizations Running the Model
I created For Mama — the first zakat-certified collaborative for maternal and child health. It is now the global financing and awareness architecture for maternal and child survival during Ramadan, used by 50+ organizations every year to mobilize zakat, sadaqah, and Ramadan giving at a sovereign scale. In 2025, I spun For Mama out into an independent entity and appointed a CEO to lead it.
For Mama (now Every Pregnancy)
CREATed · Faith-Aligned Capital · Maternal Survival · GLOBAL movement building
“500,000+ mothers and babies received services. Proved a new model of development financing that the sector had been slow to recognize.”
Co-Architect
193 Countries
Trillions Aligned
I co-architected the Sustainable Development Goals — fighting for the inclusion of Goal 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions) and making sure the framework centered the people with the most to gain and the least voice. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed me UN SDG Advocate. Antonio Guterres reappointed me.
The SDGs now guide how 193 countries align trillions of dollars in public and private capital with measurable outcomes in health, education, security, and poverty reduction.
The Sustainable Development Goals
Co-Architect · Global Governance · Systems Design · Global Advocate
“The operating system for global development across every country on earth. Appointed SDG Advocate by two successive UN Secretaries-General.”
$600+ Million for
maternal and newborn health
Government co-financing built in
First of Its Kind
I conceived and co-developed The Beginnings Fund — the largest collaborative philanthropic fund dedicated to maternal and newborn health in Africa. From the original idea, to the case to leadership, to the architecture co-developed with partners across the Gates Foundation and beyond, targeting the highest-burden countries on the continent.
The Beginnings Fund
IDEATED & Co-Developed · Health Financing Architecture · Maternal & Child Survival
“34 million mothers and babies reached. 300,000+ lives saved by 2030.”
$1 Billion+ Managed
Global team of 50+
20+ Health Portfolios
Gates Foundation: Global Health Policy, Program Advocacy and Communications Strategy
Inaugural Director · Institutional Transformation · 20+ HealtH PORTFOLIOS · Investment director
As inaugural Global Advocacy Director at the Gates Foundation, I led a $1B+ portfolio spanning 21 health strategies and a team of 50+. I drove resource mobilization across the Foundation's major health financing platforms — Gavi, the Global Fund, CEPI — contributing to the $40B+ mobilized for global health and development. I created the Foundation's first global women's health advocacy strategy, led its programmatic assessment in fragile settings, and built its Fragile, Conflict & Violence community of practice.
“The women’s health strategy contributed to the McKinsey-WEF finding of a $1 trillion annual GDP opportunity in closing the women’s health gap — reframing women’s health as an economic imperative.”
40+ Countries
Sovereign and Multilateral
I advise governments, sovereign wealth funds, and multilateral institutions across 40+ countries on health financing, security architecture, women's leadership, and sustainable development. Senior external expert advisor to Bain & Company on financing, sustainability, health, resilience, and philanthropy strategies.
Strategic Advisory to Governments & Institutions
Personal Advisory · Head of State Level
The money to build the world we say we want already exists. What's been missing is the architecture to move it to the people doing the work.
Dr. Alaa Murabit
Policy Changed
Resolutions & Frameworks
Across two decades of work across peace, health, and global development, I shaped the following resolutions and frameworks:
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UN Security Council Resolution 2122 (2013)
Women's Participation in Conflict Prevention
Strengthened women's roles in conflict prevention and resolution, requiring regular briefings on women, peace, and security in country-specific situations.
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UN Security Council Resolution 2242 (2015)
Women & Countering Violent Extremism
Integrated women, peace, and security into the counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism agendas, recognizing women's leadership in prevention.
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UN Security Council Resolution 2467 (2019)
Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Advanced a survivor-centred approach to conflict-related sexual violence, strengthening accountability and access to justice for survivors.
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UN Security Council Resolution 2493 (2019)
Full Implementation of the WPS Agenda
Called for full implementation of the Women, Peace and Security framework, demanding meaningful participation of women at all stages of peace processes.
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Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
The Global Development Framework
Co-architected the 17-goal framework now adopted by 193 countries, with a particular focus on Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.
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UN High-Level Commission (2016)
Health, Employment & Economic Growth
Commission recommendations target 40 million new health sector jobs, closing an 18 million health worker shortfall, and measurable health access improvements for billions.
Institutions Built
What Carries On
Voice of Libyan Women
CREATED · 2011
The first organization to center women's faith leadership in Libyan peacebuilding. Methodology replicated internationally and shifted how the world understood the relationship between faith, women's rights, and security.
The Beginnings Fund
Conceived & Co-Developed · 2022
$600M+ collaborative — the largest dedicated to maternal and newborn health in Africa. 34M reach. 300K+ lives by 2030. Designed to meet African governments where their health systems already operate, strengthening the workforce, facilities, and referral networks that governments themselves run.
Omnis Institute
Co-Created · 2016
Independent non-profit empowering emerging local leaders on critical global issues.
For Mama (now Every Pregnancy)
Created · 2023
The first zakat-certified collaborative for maternal and child health. $125M+ raised across three Ramadans. 50+ organizations now use the model every Ramadan, including Every Pregnancy — the independent entity spun out in 2025 to carry forward its own portion of the work.
The New Now
Co-Created · 2017
A coalition of next-generation global leaders, modeled on The Elders, convening to address the defining challenges of our time.
Sustainable Growth Practice, 500 Global
Created Practice · 2025
The Sustainable Growth practice within 500 Global, bringing private-sector capital to climate, development, and security across the economies that the global financial system has historically priced out.