Tobia Zevi (Ph.D.) is an Associate Research Fellow in charge of the Global Cities Programme at ISPI.
In November 2021 he has become Commissioner for Public Assets and Social Housing in the city of Rome.
Global Fellow Eisenhower in 2019, he was also Fellow in the US Government’s “International Visitors Leadership Program” (IVLP) in 2017.
Between 2015 and 2018 he was political adviser to the Italian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Catherine WIHTOL de WENDEN is Director of research at CNRS (CERI). For 30 years she has been a researcher on international migration, from a Political Science and Public Law approach. She studied in Sciences-Po Paris and University Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne) She got her Ph D in Political Science in 1986. She has published 20 books, alone or as co-writer and around 150 articles.
Research fellow at IsAG (Rome). From 2008 to 2018, member of the EU Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM)
Arturo Varvelli is the Head of the Rome Office and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and a Senior Associate Fellow at ISPI. He also works as a scholar on topics such as Italian-Libyan relations, Libyan domestic and foreign politics, Italian foreign policy in the Middle East and Mediterranean region, Jihadist groups in North Africa, having published both books and articles on these subjects.
Piera Tortora is the Coordinator of OECD’s Sustainable Ocean for All Initiative, aimed at supporting a transition to a global sustainable ocean economy that also the poorest and most vulnerable countries can benefit from. Piera has worked at the OECD since 2011 where, prior to leading the Sustainable Ocean for All Initiative, she led on Financing for Sustainable Development work on Small Island Developing States, Multilateral Development Finance and Transition Finance.
Valeria Tisalvi was Research Trainee for ISPI's Centre on Cybersecurity. She holds a MA in International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. Her Master thesis focused on Cyber Warfare and its impact on International Relations and, thus, on the International Security. Previously, she worked as a Junior Analyst at the Military Affairs Desk of Ce.S.I. - Centro Studi Internazionali, after an internship as Research Assistant at the International Centre for Democracy and Democratization where she worked on WMD, Disarmament and Non-proliferation.
Michele Sorice is a Full Professor at Luiss University, Rome, where he teaches Democratic Innovation and Political Sociology. At Luiss University, Michele is also director of the Centre for Conflict and Participation Studies (CCPS), member of the Scientific Committee of the international PhD in Political Theory and Political Sociology and of the Scientific Board of the School of Government. Member of several national and international scientific societies, Michele has been Honorary Professor at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.
Andrea Sommariva is Associate Professor of Practice and director of the multidisciplinary research laboratory on the evolution of the space economy (SEE Lab) at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is an international economist specializing in international finance, the markets for oil and raw materials, renewable energy, and development of the space economy. He is a member of the study group "Space Mineral Resources - Challenges and Opportunities" of the International Academy of Astronautics.
