Ana Ballesteros Peiró is Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute. She holds a PhD in Arab and Islamic studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She took PhD studies on Islam in South Asia at the School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University (2001/2002, New Delhi, India). She has taught several Central and South Asian courses at the University of Castilla La-Mancha (UCLM, 2008-2013) and the Universitat de Barcelona. 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 (2014-2015). She is an associate researcher at the Observatory of Politics and Elections in the Arab and Muslim World (OPEMAM) and a member of the Workshop on International Mediterranean Studies (UAM) and the Research Group of Muslim and Arab Societies (GRESAM, UCLM). Ballesteros teaches International Relations in the Middle East and Asia at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) and Blanquerna-Ramon Llull University.
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