Irati Egorho Diez

Irati Egorho Diez is a student in the Government department at Harvard College with a focus on International Relations and the Middle East. She is of Spanish and Nigerian descent, growing up between Spain, France, and the United States, with a brief stint in Lebanon. She has conducted research for the United States Department of State on optimization of post 9/11 crisis management; for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) on the economic effectiveness of sanctions on Russia; and into the early 20th century history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her most recent professional roles have included interning in the Executive Chairman’s Office of Libra Group, a holding company with presence in over 60 countries; Global Anti- Corruption at JPMorgan Chase; and publishing at the Hachette Book Group. Irati’s interests lie in currency, cyber, and sanction-based warfare as well as public and economic diplomacy. At Harvard College, she helmed the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative’s Speakers Branch. She also served on the liaison team for IOP Fellow Jason Rezaian; in that capacity, she organized a weekly study group focused on the 2022-2023 protests in the Islamic Republic and on global press freedom.