Associate Fellows
Kahina Bouagache is a senior legal counsel, recognized Track 2 expert, and a certified coach with over 20 years of experience across the West Asian and North African region. Her expertise includes women’s rights advocacy, gender-responsive governance, youth and women’s leadership development, institutional reform, and countering violent extremism (CVE).
She brings a unique blend of legal, diplomatic, and coaching skills to complex environments, supporting transformational leadership, inclusive governance, and social cohesion. Kahina has led contract and program management initiatives in both corporate and development sectors, with a focus on driving systemic change and empowering underrepresented voices.
Before joining CARPO as an Associate Fellow, she served in senior legal advisory roles in multinational companies and led projects for international organizations such as AMIDEAST and the American Bar Association. She has also provided support to legal aid projects to several women’s rights NGOs and contributed to legislative reforms on gender-based violence and equality. Kahina holds double master’s degrees in international business and humanitarian laws. Her work has been featured by various regional and international feminist networks such as the Wilson Center, ABA Magazine, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Arab Digest, Mansklig Sakerhet, and others.
Legal counseling, negotiations, compliance, women’s and youth empowerment, gender equality, institutional reforms, countering violent extremism, Track 2 diplomacy, coaching in North Africa and the MENA region.
(March 2025): ‘Empowering the changemakers of today: young women’, Wilson Center. Available online.
(November 2024): ‘No one wins, we all lose: the cost of dehumanization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’, Wilson Center. Available online.
(March 2021): ‘Gender equality in Algeria requires an immediate end to violence against women’, Wilson Center. Available online.
(March 2017): ‘Algeria: will the failure to reform economically further fuel Islamism?’, in: Global Policy Journal. Available online.
