Basma Lahbib is a Western Europe Senior Research Assistant with ACLED. She joined ACLED in 2019, where she began coding political violence and protests in France, Switzerland, and Monaco, moving on to cover Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein in 2021. She is now temporarily Western Europe Assistant Research Manager. She holds a Master's degree in Advanced European and International Studies, focused on Mediterranean studies, and BA degrees in History and Political Science from La Sorbonne Paris 1. Her research and artwork interests include decolonial thinking and feminist studies.