
Yasser worked at the Department for International Development since 2004 in a range of posts including a state-building project in Baghdad, and as Private Secretary to Hilary Benn. He also served as a policy adviser on the Burma desk managing the UK's humanitarian response to the recent cyclone.
Yasser is attending Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to do a Masters in Public Administration, building on his background in Social and Political Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge.