Katrin Bennhold
Die Zeit /AICGS Fellow

Katrin Bennhold is a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. An economist by training, Katrin has been covering French and European politics for the IHT and its parent newspaper, The New York Times, for almost three years. Prior to that she was a senior economics writer for Bloomberg News and a television reporter for Bloomberg TV and N24, a German 24-hour news channel, in London. Katrin obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in economics from the London School of Economics in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

She became interested in the topic of integrating Muslim immigrants during three weeks of rioting by second-generation immigrants in France's banlieues (suburbs) last November. Since covering the unrest with a series of articles researched and written from the volatile suburbs, she has come back to the issue on several occasions and will spend her time at AICGS looking at how methods of integration differ on this side of the Atlantic. In her project, entitled "Integrating Islam: A Transatlantic Challenge," Katrin hopes to identify some of the lessons that Europe can learn from the United States - and vice versa.