Kate Robertson
Cara Middle East Advisor/Syria Programme Coordinator
Kate Robertson is the Cara (Council for At-Risk Academics) Middle East Adviser and Syria Programme in Region Coordinator. She held the post of Cara Deputy Executive Director from 2006 to 2015, during which time she helped to grow the newly formed Cara Scholars at Risk UK Universities Network and set up and ran the Cara Iraq Programme in Jordan (2006-2012). This last spawned the Cara core Fellowship Programme in its current guise, which she also ran through to 2015. Cara launched the Syria Programme in 2012, initially as part of the core Fellowship Programme, prior to Kate stepping into her current consultancy role to set up and run the ‘Cara Syria Programme in Region’ based in Turkey.
Other positions held before joining Cara included that of ALNAP Deputy Director (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action) based at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) from 2002 to 2005 and, from 1995 to 1999, that of Deputy Director and Fundraising Executive for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). Kate gained an MA in the ‘Theory and Practice of International Human Rights Law’ from the University of Essex in 1994.