Profile
Kateřina Velíšek is a Research Fellow at AMO. She focuses on international migration and its links to humanitarian aid, development cooperation and European foreign aid policy, drawing on field experience from the Middle East and Ukraine.
She brings practitioner experience from the humanitarian sector. She led a consortium of five organisations protecting civilians in frontline areas of Ukraine for Nonviolent Peaceforce and, as Regional Manager at Caritas Czech Republic, led programmes in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Morocco and Türkiye, mostly working with displaced populations.
She holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, an MA in Israel Studies: Politics and Society from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS, University of London. She is a trustee of Collective Aid Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit assisting people on the move at European borders.