Dr. Anja Zorob

GRM 2011 Workshop: The Role of Business Women in the Economies and Societies of the Arab Region

Professor in the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics / Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science / Department of Political & Social Sciences - Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Anja Zorob is professor (Junior professor) at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. Her teaching activities at the Center cover International Relations of MENA countries, European Foreign Policy with special focus on Europe and the Mediterranean and wider Middle East, Economic Development and Political Economy of Reform as well as Regional / Global Integration of MENA economies. Her research record includes processes and outcomes of Middle Eastern and North African intra- and interregional economic integration (Euro-Mediterranean relations and intra-Arab integration) and political economy of reform in MENA countries (Syria and other Mashreq) besides issues of peace and conflict studies including Israeli-Palestinian relations and Iraqi refugees. Her current research activities focus on characteristics and impact of overlapping FTAs with special focus on Gulf Cooperation Council member countries trade policies, FTA negotiations with third parties (in particular with EU and US) and GCC internal economic integration; Arab business women and their organizations as drivers of change. In addition to research and teaching, Anja Zorob served in recent years as a consultant for German development organizations and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, among others. Before joining Freie Universitat Berlin, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) at Ruhr-University Bochum and the Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES), German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany.