Ayelet Shachar

Ayelet Shachar is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. She previously held the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at University of Toronto.
Shachar is the awad-winning author of Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (CUP), The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Harvard University Press) which was named an International Ethics notable book. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship. She is the recipient of excellence awards in three different countries, the most recent of which was awarded to her by the Migration & Citizenship Section of the APSA. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.