Aldo Pigoli is Adjunct Professor of Regional Studies / History of Contemporary Africa at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Since 2005 he has been a faculty member of the Università Cattolica’s Graduate School for Economics and International Relations (ASERI), of the Italian Society for the International Organization (SIOI) in Rome and (since 2011) of the Post Conflict Operations Study Centre (PCOSC) of the Italian Army in Turin. He is a member of the Scientific and Steering Committee of the Italian Association for Intelligence and Geopolitics' Analysts (AIAIG).