Shada Islam

Shada Islam is an award-winning and well-known Brussels-based analyst and commentator on EU affairs who now works independently as an advisor/analyst/strategist/op-ed writer on Europe, Africa, Asia, geopolitics, trade and inclusion. Her columns are published in the EU Observer, the Guardian and Hyphen Online.

Shada worked for nine years as director of Europe and geopolitics at Friends of Europe, an influential independent think-tank based in Brussels. She now runs her own Brussels-based global media, strategy and advisory company, New Horizons Project.

She is senior advisor at the European Policy Centre and also at Bursons, a renowned international communication firm, and a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Natolin).