Dr. La Toya Waha is Deputy Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Regional Programme Political Dialogue Asia in Singapore. Dr. Waha’s research focus is on the emergence of political violence, the relation between religion, politics and the state as well as suicide as a political tool. She has published on political culture, collective violence as well as political parties in South Asia. Her major publication is her book, Religion and State-Formation in Transitional Societies: Sri Lanka in a Comparative Perspective.
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Valeria Talbot is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Head of ISPI's Middle East and North Africa Centre, in charge of Middle East Studies. She also is a lecturer at the Master in Middle Eastern Studies in ASERI – Catholic University, and at the IULM University of Milan. She was ISPI scientific coordinator of Arab Trans, a FP7 funded research project on political and social transformations in the Arab World after the Arab uprisings in 2010-2011.
Matthew Karnitschnig is POLITICO’s chief Europe correspondent, based in Berlin. He joined the publication in 2015 from the Wall Street Journal, where he spent 15 years in a variety of positions as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and Europe.
Michael L. Giffoni (New York, 1965), da diplomatico di carriera dal 1992 al 2014 ha ricoperto numerosi e delicati incarichi nazionali ed europei. Dopo aver trascorso gli anni ’90 in Bosnia e nel resto dell’ex-Jugoslavia in guerra, è stato Capo della Task-force per i Balcani dell’Alto Rappresentante per la Politica estera Ue, Javier Solana, poi per 5 anni primo Ambasciatore d’Italia in Kosovo (2008-2013) ed infine (2013-14) Capo Ufficio per il Nord Africa e la Transizione araba al Ministero degli Affari esteri.
Claudio Bertolotti, Ph.D, è Analista strategico, docente di 'Analisi d'area', Subject Matter Expert per la NATO e ricercatore italiano al CEMRES di Tunisi per la ‘5+5 Defense Initiative’ per la sicurezza del Mediterraneo
Eleonora Ardemagni is an ISPI Associate Research Fellow (contributing to the MENA Centre since 2013) and her research analysis focuses on political and security issues in Yemen and the Gulf monarchies, and on Arab military forces.
Carlo Altomonte is Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI. He is Associate Professor of Economics of European Integration at Bocconi University and Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel, a EU think tank. He has been regularly acting as consultant for a number of national and international institutions, including the Italian Government, the United Nations (UNCTAD), the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.