Irati Evworo Diez is a senior in Winthrop House, concentrating in Government 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. 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. She has conducted research for the U.S. Department of State on optimizing post 9/11 crisis management; for the HKS Institute of Politics on the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia; and into the early 20th-century history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. At Harvard, she is a research assistant for the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative, a teaching fellow for Libertarian Economics, and previously helmed the Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative’s Speakers Branch. She also served on the liaison team for IOP Fellow Jason Rezaian, organizing a weekly study group focused on the 2022-2023 protests in the Islamic Republic and on global press freedom. Evworo Diez’s interests lie in unconventional warfare, the evolution of the laws of armed conflict, and rebel governance, particularly the provision of social services by insurgents.