Georgia Mourad Brooks

Founder & CEO at The Nine | Founder at Fempower Initiative | Gender Equality | Social Entrepreneur

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Founder of Belgium’s first female-focused members' club and gender equality charity. Founder of the Fempower Initiative, a non-profit under the King Baudouin Foundation dedicated to funding girls’ education and healthcare projects in the Middle East. Motivated by building spaces and moments where women can thrive and be inspired. Talking non-stop gender equality at events and with The Nine podcast series. Find me in Brussels, London, Cairo, Montreal, and online.

Experience

  • Senior Adviser at European Policy Centre
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Senior Adviser on Gender Equality, DEI, and Human Rights

  • Chief Executive Officer at The Nine
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Belgium's first female-focused private members club, with exclusive townhouse and garden. A community that believes in making equality reality. Open morning to late with bar, restaurant, coworking, library, meeting rooms. Members enjoy a dynamic & exclusive events programme.

  • Founder at The Nine Equality Initiative
    Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

    The purpose of the association is to raise awareness and promote equality, equity and parity between women and men at all levels of society. The Nine Equality Initiative organises events, meetings, workshops and charity events to further these goals.

  • Founder & Managing Director at Fempower Initiative
    Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    Helping girls and young women living in disadvantaged areas of the Middle East reach their full potential. Focus on access to health and education, in partnership with locals NGOs.

  • Central Asia Volunteer Researcher at Christian Solidarity Worldwide
    Sep 2015 - Jul 2016 · 11 mos

    Researched and wrote on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Central Asia, including preparing the first such report on Turkmenistan. Liaised with the EEAS on human rights concerns in Turkmenistan ahead of the country's Human Rights Dialogue 2016.