Katarzyna Sidło joined the EUISS as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Middle East and North Africa in December 2024. Previously, Katarzyna was Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department at CASE—Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland. During her eleven years at CASE, Katarzyna conducted policy-oriented and academic research, the former commissioned by clients such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Space Agency, the European Committee of the Regions, and the Polish and British governments. 

Dr Sidło was a Visiting Scholar at G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies of Ilia State University, Tbilisi (2019/2020) and at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge (2015), as well as a SHARIASource Editor for Islamic Finance at Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Currently, Katarzyna holds the position of a recurring visiting professor at ASERI – Graduate School of Economics and International Relations at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy.  

Katarzyna holds a PhD and an MA from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. Moreover, she has a BSc from the Faculty of Economic Studies from the same university.