Ana Ballesteros Peiró

• @AnaBalPei

Ana Ballesteros Peiró is Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs CIDOB. She holds a Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies from Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (UAM). Her main areas of expertise are South Asia and the Middle East, Islamic sectarianism and the sociology of religion. During 2000 and 2001, she took Ph.D. studies on Islam in South Asia at the School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). She has taught International Cooperation in Central and South Asia at the University of Castilla La-Mancha, and has worked for UAM’s Foundation in a research project on sectarian and group violence. She has also been part of the Conflict Studies and Peacebuilding group at the School for a Culture of Peace at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. She is associate researcher at the Observatory of Politics and Elections in the Arab and Muslim World (OPEMAM).