Councillor Biographies

Katiana Orluc

Dr. Katiana Orluc, Middle Eastern expert; visiting scholar at center for European Studies at Harvard University

Dr. Katiana Orluc is a graduate of Freie Universität, Berlin; she received her Masters from Oxford University and a Ph. D. from the European University Institute in Florence. She worked for the European Commission on the reconstruction of Iraq, Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process. In 2005/2006 she was Advisor / Special Assistant to James Wolfensohn during his time as envoy for ‘The Quartet’ of countries seeking to broker a lasting peace in the Middle East.  She has written articles on European identity and the European public sphere with a specific focus on the interwar years. Her broader research interests include crisis prevention and crisis management, particularly in the Middle East.

Watch Katiana Orluc talk about the WFC here