Diana Pinto
Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris.
The daughter of Italian Jewish parents, she is married to the French political scientist Dominique Moïsi and a resident of France.
Life
She was educated in the United States and is a graduate of Harvard University where she obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History.After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she became the editor-in-chief of Belvédère, France's first pan-European review for a general public. She also worked as a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe for its civil society programmes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, of Collegium Budapest in Hungary and of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She is a founder member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
As a Senior Fellow and a board member of the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research she has been working on a project of "Jewish voices for the European res publica".
Publications
Amongst others, Diana Pinto published a reader on Contemporary Italian Sociology and the autobiographical book Entre deux mondes. She has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent's pluralist challenges. Her articles have been published across Eastern and Western Europe.In 1996 she published an internationally debated policy paper on A new Jewish identity for post-1989 Europe, claiming that post-Cold War Europe could be turned "into the third pillar of a world Jewish identity at the cross-roads of a newly interpreted past, and a pluralist and democratic future".
In 2013, Harvard University Press published Pinto's psychological, symbolic portrait of "postmodern" Israeli society, ''Israel Has Moved.''