Hind Kabawat is a senior program officer in United States Institutes of Peace. She is also a senior research associate in public diplomacy and director of the conflict resolution program of Syria at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University. Previously she was the international counsel at Janssen and Associates, Toronto; Hind has led a variety of public diplomacy efforts in recent years in Syria to promote interfaith tolerance and cooperation, modernization and reform, as well as educational innovations in conflict resolution and diplomacy education.
She was awarded in 2007 the Peacemakers in Action Award from the Tanenbaum Centre for Interreligious Understanding in New York, and also the Public Diplomacy Award from CRDC, George Mason University in 2009.
In 2009, she was a member on the Future of the Middle East, World Economic Forum, Davos. And also was a member in the Global Agenda Council for war intervention in 2011-2012, World Economic Forum and a founding member of the Syrian Centre of Dialogue.
She holds a B.A. in economics from Damascus University, a degree in law from the Arab University in Beirut, a certificate in conflict resolution from the University of Toronto, a certificate in strategy leadership from the University of Toronto and a Masters in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.