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Catherine Fieschi

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Catherine Fieschi has been Demos' Director since January 2007. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change. Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Political Science from McGill University, is a contributing editor to Prospect Magazine, co-editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and the author of In the Shadow of Democracy (MUP 2004).

Contact details:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7367 6335
Mobile: +44 (0) 7796171769
Email: catherine.fieschi@demos.co.uk

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 English, French, Italian native level. Spanish, fluent.

Catherine Fieschi has been Demos' Director since January 2007.  She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change.   Her work on mobilisation, identity formation and institutional development addresses the following questions: How do citizens and  states engage in self-definition when all the traditional coordinates seem to be vanishing under the pressures of globalisation? What does this mean for the nature of our commitment to parties, groups, places (homes, work-places or cities fr instance) and ideas? can we re-ignite an enthusiasm for the public realm and for politics through a better understanding of how people commit to causes, movements, candidates, services or jobs? How can we understand and shape individual and collective behaviour in ways that are creative, sustainable and empowering? And, finally, what role should contemporary  organisations and institutions  (both private and public) play in creating these tools for political, social and emotional resilience?  Catherine's and Demos' work across issues and sectors - address these issues that we believe, are the heart of 21st century politics.

Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Political Science from McGill University in Canada.   Prior to joining Demos in 2005, she was Director of the Centre for the Study of European Governance at the University of Nottingham. She is a regular commentator on  far right politics, identity politics and institutional analysis both in the UK and the rest of Europe and the author of In the Shadow of Democracy (MUP 2004) .

Catherine is a contributing editor for Prospect Magazine, she is co-editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, a Visiting Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, a Fellow of The Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queens University in Canada and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol.  She is also a trustee of The Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a Member of the Board of  MASS LBP, a Canadian company that is re-inventing the concept of public consultation.

Born in Senegal, Catherine grew up in Italy, France and the US.  After a wonderfully long spell in Canada she came to the UK in 1993 for a six month research fellowship--and stayed.

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