Stella Peisch is a researcher specializing in social, political, and historical dynamics in the Middle East, with a decade of experience spanning academic, policy, and consultancy work.

She is currently undertaking a PhD in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute (expected completion in 2026), where her dissertation examines media narratives of massacres in the Middle East in the 1980s.

Since 2020, Stella has been in a research and development role with a Lebanon-based organization addressing legacies of conflict. Her research and consulting portfolio includes projects on media ecosystems, humanitarian and development challenges, and conflict dynamics in the Middle East for institutions and companies in the region, Europe, and the United States.

She has an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from Georgetown University, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian, and conversational in Arabic.