Sinan Abushanab

Sinan AbuShanab is the Associate Director of the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP), where he leads the strategic planning and execution of program initiatives. Sinan oversees the operational and logistical needs of the program, including workshop implementation, managing technology platforms, and serving as a key point of contact for program participants. He joined MIT Sloan Global Programs in 2018.

Previously, Sinan was the Program Manager for Our Generation Speaks, a fellowship program and incubator at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He facilitated fundraising, recruitment, and summer programming in this role, fostering collaboration among young Israeli and Palestinian community leaders to create high-impact ventures. Before that, he worked at the Public Relations Department of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem and at the Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI) in Ramallah, the first nonprofit startup incubator in Palestine.

Sinan holds an MS in Management and Information Systems from the University of Manchester and an MA in Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World from Freie Universität Berlin.