Rana brings over twenty years of global experience advancing social justice from distinct vantage points in philanthropy, academia, social impact investment and civil society.

She offers specialist knowledge of inequalities and the role that philanthropy, impact investing and their associated infrastructure can play in reducing (or exacerbating) it, as well as extensive experience with the design and delivery of learning programmes on these topics.

Alongside leading the Equality Impact Investing Project, she provides strategic support to philanthropic organisations and impact investors on how they can more effectively tackle inequalities. Among her recent engagements include working with Robert Bosch Stiftung to design and deliver a flagship programme on reducing inequalities through intersectional practice, Lankelly Chase Foundation to explore possibilities for closer alignment between investments and social movements, the Ubele Initiative to understand the infrastructure needs for anti-racist activism and Philea, the membership body for European foundations, to develop  “Philanthropy and Equality: A Framework for Sharing Power and Addressing Inequalities”. Her most recent collaboration with TSIC involved global research on gender equality in the arts and culture sector. She currently serves on the board of the European Cultural Foundation and on the Impact Council of Tomorrow, a sustainable banking platform based in Germany.

Rana has held positions with the LSE’s International Inequality Institute, the Ford Foundation, Domini Impact Investments, Columbia Global Centers | Turkey and the Home for Cooperation in Cyprus, whilst also serving as a trustee of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Mediterranean.