Director, The Foundation for Global Political Exchange & Senior Fellow, Refugees International
Nicholas Noe is a Senior Fellow at
Refugees International. He is also director of the 501(c)3
Foundation for Global Political Exchange, established in 2008, as well as co-founder of the Beirut-based news translation service
Mideastwire.com, established in 2005. From 2017 to 2021, he served as a Political Advisor at the Geneva-based
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
During the presidential campaign in 2016, Noe was the Regional Organizing Director for Hillary Clinton in Michigan where he managed the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) operation for Wayne County and Dearborn. In 2020, he was selected as a Policy Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute (EUI)
Mr. Noe’s Op-Eds on the region have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, Asia Times, The National and The National Interest, among other publications. His most recent policy paper for Refugees International is titled: "Efforts to Localize Aid in Ukraine One Year On: Stuck in Neutral, Losing Time."
He is also the author of a 2009 policy paper for the New America and Century Foundations titled “Re-Imagining the Lebanon Track: Towards a New US Policy," the editor of the 2007 book "Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah," co-editor of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s journal on the Middle East (Perspectives) from 2012-2015 and was a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations in 2014.
From 1999-2000, he worked for First Lady Hillary Clinton as an opposition researcher during her successful United States Senate campaign and then went on to serve in New York City government as a speechwriter for the Speaker of the New York City Council and as a policy advisor on technology.
Mr. Noe lived between Beirut, Lebanon, where he co-founded the Coop D'Etat Rooftop, and Tunis, Tunisia, where he co-founded Villa 78, from 2004-2022. He graduated Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University (1999) and later received his MPhil with honors from Cambridge University (International Relations, 2006), where he was elected a scholar of Selwyn College.
