Role
Advisor for Relations with the United States and Transatlantic Relations at the Centre d'Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie (CAPS) of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs; adjunct professor of US foreign policy at Sciences Po Paris.
Bio
Giovanna De Maio holds a Master's degree and a PhD in International Studies, both from the Oriental University. During her PhD, she worked on the 2014 conflict in Ukraine from a geopolitical, social, and Russian political-cultural perspective. She completed a research fellowship in Moscow and completed her dissertation at the Brookings Institution, where she also conducted a study on energy relations between the EU and Russia. Before her PhD, she earned a Master's degree in Diplomatic Studies from the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) in Rome.
During her international education, she completed internships in Strasbourg, at the Council of Europe, in Brussels, at the Athena-EuLogos Observatory, and at the Institute of International Affairs in Rome.
She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) in Paris, where she analyzed the impact of sanctions against Russia (and Russian counter-sanctions) on the Italian economy, and at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) in Washington, DC, working on a study on the ties between Russia and Italian political parties in the run-up to the 2018 general elections.
From 2018 to 2021, she was a visiting research fellow at the Brookings Institution, with a visit to the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University from 2020 to 2021. In October 2021, she returned to Europe, to France, where she currently works in policy planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Giovanna De Maio has worked at leading international research institutions, working closely with international organizations and diplomatic missions. She has presented her work in various contexts, from universities (Harvard, Tartu), think tanks (Brookings and Ifri), and the private sector; she has given interviews to the BBC, NPR News, CGTN America, and RBK Russia. She recently presented asylum policies in Italy and the EU at the Executive Office of the President of the United States (Office of Management and Budget).