Katerina Siira

Deputy Director 

Katerina Siira directs PREP’s projects in Colombia. She designs and facilitates the program’s work with universities, researchers and youth in Iraq, Kuwait and Libya, and helps to oversee the PREP’s overall development. Prior to shifting her focus to peacebuilding, Katerina worked with the UN Refugee Agency and the United States Refugee Admissions Program in sub-Saharan Africa, where she led refugee resettlement missions throughout the continent and oversaw the child protection program. Katerina’s passion to develop and implement youth participation and education programs has led her to work with several international organizations in countries such as Iraq, Thailand, India, and Jordan.

Katerina is an adjunct instructor at NYU’s Center for Global affairs, where she teaches the Joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding and Advanced joint Research Seminar in Peacebuilding, an interactive set of courses that bring together researchers from NYU and the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública (ESAP) to develop and implement peace research in rural Colombia.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Skidmore College and an M.S. in Global Affairs from NYU.   

EMAIL: KATERINA.SIIRA@NYU.EDU