Shatha Abdulsamad is a Palestinian researcher and policy analyst based in Berlin. She is a Policy Member at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.

She previously served as a researcher at the Alternative Policy Solutions public policy research project at the American University in Cairo, as Political Officer at the British Consulate in Jerusalem, and as Programme Manage at the German think-tank Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Abdulsamad holds an MA in International Human Rights Law and Refugee Studies from the American University in Cairo, and a higher diploma in Strategic and Political Communication from Birzeit University. Shatha was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar to Belgium, and holds a second master´s in Business Management from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.