As of June 1st, Ola is affiliated with the Montaigne Centre of Utrecht University as a PhD candidate. Her doctoral research focuses on the regulation of algorithmic decision-making processes and is supervised by Professor Nadya Purtova. She speaks at conferences and is a guest lecturer for (postgraduate) educational seminars. 

Ola Al Khatib holds an honours BA in 'Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges' and an LLB from respectively Leiden University College The Hague and Leiden Law School. After having completed an LLM in Administrative and Constitutional Law from the latter in 2020 (cum laude), Ola embarked on a postgraduate LLM at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). At the LSE, she specialised in European public law as well as theory and philosophy of law (with distinction).

During her studies, Ola worked and interned in both the public and private sector, e.g. at the Dutch Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe and in the administrative and international law practices of multiple (international) law firms. In addition, she worked as a junior lecturer in constitutional and administrative law at Leiden Law School.

After her studies, Ola continued working as junior researcher and lecturer at the department of constitutional and administrative law of Leiden Law School. She was involved in the coordination and teaching of bachelor and master courses. She also contributed to departmental research projects on an EU digital administrative act (commissioned by the European Parliament) and on the right to government information (commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interior Affairs). Simultaneously, she was carrying out research on the legal implications of algorithmic decision-making under the supervision of Professor Anne Meuwese.