raffaella a. del sarto

Raffaella A. Del Sarto

Full-time Professor, European University Institute

Raffaella A. Del Sarto holds the Mediterranean Chair at the European University Institute (EUI), Department of Political and Social Sciences and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Before joining the EUI, she was Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna campus. She was previously a part-time professor at the EUI, and a fellow at the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford University. She received her PhD (summa cum laude) in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MA in Political Science from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. During the years of the Oslo process, she worked with Palestinian civil society as a project manager for a German political foundation. She is fluent in English, German, French, Italian, and Hebrew, and she knows some Arabic and some Spanish.