Public Positions
Badawi has been an adviser to the Foreign Policy Centre and a Council Member of the Overseas Development Institute.
She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (since 2004) and the British Council.
In June 2011 her appointment to the advisory board of the New College of the Humanities was announced.
Badawi is founder and chair of the Africa Medical Partnership Fund (AfriMed), a charity which aims to help local medical professionals in Africa.
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