ghnoubia@we-empower.co

We-Empower’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Head of Programs at Georges N. Frem Foundation (GNFF), and Senior Policy Advisor for the African Union (AU) Women Gender and Development Directorate (WGDD). Noubia Gribi has extensive experience managing successful USG and other donors’ programs, in Africa and the Middle East. 

Noubia Gribi has over 30 years of expertise designing, implementing, managing, and supporting international development assistance initiatives in agricultural marketing, food security, nutrition, livelihoods and social net, value-chain analysis, and economic benefit strengthening and analysis.
Ms. Gribi’s background includes key experience in horticulture product development, medicinal plants, small ruminant livestock, dairy value chain, essential oils, and spices. She has substantial knowledge from 30 years of field experience with rural livelihoods in the Middle East and Africa, traveling to over 26 countries. Ms. Gribi has in-depth knowledge of social, economic, and political issues as they relate to the environment and natural resources in the Middle East and Africa, including gender mainstreaming, as well as youth and women’s empowerment. 

Noubia Gribi audited and helped strengthen the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Strategy, which was presented at the CW63 at the UN conference in New York, in March, 2019 in the presence of High Officials from the 55 African member states. She also presented at the twentieth session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) for Africa in Marrakech, focusing on the “United Nations system support for the African Union in commemorating 2019 as the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons”. Mrs. Gribi continues to assist WGDD for the implementation and roll out of the Strategy in the 55 AU member states. 

Noubia Gribi served as Senior Vice-President for Blumberg Grain, a private leader in food security and food safety. In that capacity, Ms. Gribi led business development in Algeria, providing food safety and security infrastructure to prevent post-harvest loss, from 45% to less than 5%, which increases real agricultural output, stabilizes food supplies, and enables market timing of agricultural products. Ms. Gribi mapped and guided value chain studies for cereals in Algeria to ensure that all actors and factors were included for their storage design.

Ms. Gribi has also engaged with the Algerian private sector as well as other African countries for the development of cold chain storage and export platform, using Blumberg Grain Food Security technology for cold storage and controlled atmosphere for fresh produce. She prepared and conducted a Food Security workshop in Algiers to share the benefits of the public-private partnership. 

Ms. Gribi has a MS degree in Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, DC, a MA degree in Agricultural Economics and a BS degree in Agronomy from the National Institute of Agriculture (INA), Algeria. She was an honors student from both Universities, in Algeria and in Washington DC, and won the Best Arab Woman of the year award, in 2008, from ESCWA-UN (Beirut). Ms. Gribi is fluent in English, French, and Arabic, and has a solid understanding of Spanish. 

Noubia Gribi specifically worked in these countries: Algeria, Burkina-Faso, Chad, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, Niger, Rwanda, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, and Yemen.