Giovanni Carbone (PhD, London School of Economics) is Head of the ISPI Africa Programme and Full Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His research focuses on geopolitics, politics and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, and, over the years, he conducted fieldwork in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Rwanda, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.
Giovanni was previously a Research Associate at the Crisis States Programme of the London School of Economics and the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) project.
His recent publications include Political leadership in Africa. Leaders and development south of the Sahara (Cambridge University Press, 2020; co-authored with Alessandro Pellegata) and L’Africa. Gli stati, la politica, i conflitti (Il Mulino, 2021, 4th edition).
He also edited the following reports: Sahel: 10 years of instability. Local, regional and international dynamics (2022, co-edited with Camillo Casola), Europe and Africa. The long search for common ground (2021), Africa's thorny Horn. Searching for a new balance in the age of pandemic (2020), Leaders for a new Africa. Democrats, autocrats and development (2019), A vision of Africa's future. Mapping change, transformations and trajectories towards 2030 (2018, commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Out of Africa. Why people migrate (2017), South Africa: the need for change (2016), Africa: still rising? (2015), La politica dell’Italia in Africa. Contesto, interessi e scenari della presenza politica e economica italiana nell’Africa subsahariana (2014, commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
