Rosemary Hollis

Rosemary Hollis is a British political scientist. She is a professor of Middle East Policy Studies and director of the Olive Tree Programme at City University London. Hollis is renowned for her expertise and scholarship on the relations between the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States with the Middle East. She was formerly the Research Director at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs).

Rosemary Hollis was born in Dudley, England. She graduated from King's College, London, with a BA in History in 1974 and MA in War Studies in 1975. Before moving to the United States, she held various research positions in the media and commerce in London, having also worked for the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. She gained a PhD in Political Science from George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she was also a lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs (1980-1989). In 1990 She returned to the United Kingdom, to become the head of the Middle East programme at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, a position she held until 1995. She then moved to a similar role at Chatham House, as head of its Middle East programme. In 2005 she became Director of Research at Chatham House, with overall responsibility for research activity, project formulation, grant applications and the publications of the institute.

In March 2008, Hollis left Chatham House to become Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University London. Olive Tree recruits and awards scholarships for exceptional Israeli and Palestinians students, to study for an undergraduate degree at City. The students participate in a specially designed parallel programme – in conjunction with their academic studies – in order to promote further understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The scholarship programme was initiated at 2004, and some of its alumni have assumed key roles in their respective communities. One of these alumni, Stav Shaffir, has become the youngest Israeli Knesset member after leading the 2011 Israeli social justice protests.

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