Dr. Iro studied Comparative Literature at Cambridge and Slavic Studies at Oxford and Moscow. He completed his doctorate at the LMU Munich on the Russian-Jewish writer Isaak Babel.

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Dr. Iro has worked at the Goethe-Institut since 2004. From 2009 to the beginning of 2014 he worked as head of regional programme work in Moscow, then as institute director in Israel. At the moment he is head of the cultural department of the Goethe-Institut.