Ilyas Saliba

Since October 2013 Humboldt University, Berlin

• PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Social Sciences (BGSS)

• Dissertation Project: (working title): How elite perceptions, the sequence of diffusion and  modus of regime decision-making in crises impact the ability for authoritarian learning 

Since September 2013 WZB Berlin Social Science Center

• Research fellow at Research Unit Democracy and Democratization 

• Communications officer at Research Unit Democracy and Democratization

Since April 2019 Global Public Policy institute

• Research Associate in the Human Rights and Democracy Team

January 2018 - April 2019 Amnesty International, Germany

• MENA Desk and Advocacy for the German chapter of Amnesty International  

September - December 2016 Oxford University, Nuffield College

• Visiting Researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford

September - December 2015 Ecole Gouvernment et Economique (EGE)

• Visiting Researcher at the Centre de Recherche Economie Société et Culture (CRESC) at EGE in Rabat, Morocco

March - June 2015 American University in Cairo (AUC)

• Guest Researcher at the Department for Political Science at American University in Cairo, Egypt 

September - December 2014 European University Institute (EUI), Fiesole

• Visiting Student at the Department for Political and Social Sciences

• Program Associate to the Europe in the World Programm at the Robert Schumann Center for Adavnced Studies

2011-2013 ETH Zürich and University of Zürich

• MA in International and Comparative Studies

• Thesis: Explaining Authoritarian Resilience in Moments of Contestation: Morocco During the Arab Uprisings. 

2012-2013 Free University Berlin

• MA level exchange student at the Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science 

2007-2011 University of Hamburg

• BA in Political Science - Bachelor Thesis: The EU Foreign Policy towards Libya

2010 University of Gothenburg

• BA level exchange student in Politial Science with the School of Global Studies and the School of Public Administration