is an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris. The daughter of Italian Jewish parents, educated in the United States and a resident of France, she is equally at home in all three cultures. She is a Summa cum Laude graduate of Harvard University where she also obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History. Dr. Pinto has been a Fulbright Fellow, the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowhsip and was most recently a Fellow at the Collegium Budapest in Budapest (2002), as well as at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam (2003). She was a Consultant for Cultural Affairs for USIS in Paris in the 1980’s. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, she was Editor in Chief of France’s first pan-European review for a general public, Belvedere, published by Le Groupe Express. She subsequently served as a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the Council of Europe for its civil society programmes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is now a consultant for European jewish Affairs. Dr. Pinto has written widely articles on transatlantic issues, French and Italian politics, and European affairs. She is the author of Contemporary Italian Sociology (1981) and edited two policy oriented books, Securing the Euro-Atantic Bridge: the Council of Europe and the United States, New York 1993, and Les enjeux de la grande Europe: le Conseil de l'Europe et la sécurité démocratique, Strasbourg, 1996. She is the author of an intellectual atobiography Entre deux mondes (1991) and is completing a book on The Wager: reconciling Europe and the Jewish World in the 21st century. Her articles on the challenges confronting Europe’s Jews today have been translated across Europe.