DOB & Academic Director
Ilka holds a B.A in Political Science (Sciences Po), a joint Master’s degree in Social Sciences (ENS/EHESS, Paris) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She studied at Princeton and worked as a postdoc at UPenn (USA) before joining the University of Oxford in 2018. Currently a research fellow at Kellogg College, Ilka collaborates with several Oxford departments and teaches research methods, based on her extensive experience in supervising research projects in Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
Ilka brings to OxCo her knowledge of research institutions and her understanding of scholars’ language, objectives, and perspective. She also contributes her extensive experience in organising and running academic events and her passion for the dissemination of research findings, within academia and beyond.
