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Walid Malik is a democracy and human rights educator, as well as an HIA Senior Fellow. Born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Walid studied Political Science and Law (B.A.), and International Studies, Peace, and Conflict Research (M.A.) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Technical University Darmstadt, and the University of Toronto.
He currently works full-time as a Researcher and Policy Adviser at the German Institute for Human Rights, where he coordinates the institute’s human rights research activities. From 2021 to 2024, he was responsible for the state-level monitoring of children’s and youth rights in Hesse at the Monitoring Mechanism for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2023, he was elected to the national board of the German Society for Democracy Education (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demokratiepädagogik – DeGeDe e.V.).
He is an alumnus of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, where he initiated the human rights working group and the anti-discriminatory council for scholarship holders. Furthermore, he is an alumnus of Deutschlandstiftung Integration and the Network Inclusion Leaders (NILE).
His educational work is specifically dedicated to combating antisemitism, anti-Muslim racism, and other forms of intersectional discrimination. Following the racist terror attack in Hanau in 2020, Walid was appointed adviser to the task force on group-focused enmity and anti-Muslim racism in the state of Hesse.
- To learn more, visit Walid’s page on the German Institute for Human Rights website.
Updated April 2025