Cohort 
2026

Dina Hashish, LLM

Healthy Aging Consultant, Lawyer and Entrepreneur

Reducing dementia requires reimagining healthy aging by prioritizing brain health through prevention, compassionate care, community empowerment, and partnerships for equitable change.

Current Work

Dina is a healthy aging consultant, social entrepreneur, and founder improving older adults' lives through innovation, community engagement, and cross-sector collaboration. Her corporate law background strengthens partnerships, governance, systems navigation, 

Personal Hero

My family

Words of Strength

Building meaningful connections

Vision

Reducing dementia requires reimagining healthy aging by making brain health a societal priority through prevention, compassionate care, community empowerment, and cross-sector partnerships that create lasting, equitable change.

Strategy

By reimagining healthy ageing, Dina transforms evidence into community action through community-led innovation that strengthens social connectedness, empowers older adults, and fosters cross-sector partnerships to advance brain health.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow, Dina will help reimagine healthy aging by translating brain health evidence into scalable community action, building partnerships that improve lives and reduce the impact of dementia.

Motivation

In Egypt and the region, dementia remains under-recognized and stigmatized. By reimagining healthy aging through social connection, community-based innovation, and cross-sector partnerships, Dina aims to advance brain health and reduce dementia risk.

Education & Experience

Dina is an Ashoka Fellow, healthy aging consultant, social entrepreneur, international arbitrator, and corporate governance expert. She is the Founder of the Golden Years Foundation, where she leads community engagement initiatives and cross-sector partnerships to advance healthy ageing and older adults' wellbeing in Egypt.

She was recognized by the World Health Organization as one of 50 global leaders advancing the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing and is a member of Ashoka's global New Longevity Fellows cohort. She contributed to the development of Egypt's national caregiving curriculum for older adults as a UN Women Consultant.

Dina has over 20 years of international experience in corporate law, governance, and arbitration, having worked across New York, Milan, and Cairo. She holds an LL.M. in Corporate Governance & Practice from Stanford Law School, an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo, and a Licence de Droit from Cairo University. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Egypt.

Her work focuses on reimagining healthy aging through community innovation, social connection, and cross-sector collaboration, translating evidence into action to promote brain health, reduce dementia risk, and help older adults thrive.

Awards & Honors

Ashoka
Longevity and healthy aging
2024
Ashoka Fellowship
The World Health Organization
Healthy Aging
2022
The Healthy Ageing 50

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