Role
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at L'Orientale University, Naples.
Bio
He graduated in 2001 from the University of Bologna in International and Diplomatic Sciences and obtained a Master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2003. In 2008, he completed his PhD at the Federico II University of Naples.
She has held numerous international fellowships and collaborations (CEPS, SWP, Brookings Institution, ISPI, Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund) and was a consultant to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as an associate fellow at Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe in Bologna (2015-2016).
Since 2019, she has been an associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Naples L'Orientale. From 2020 to 2023, she was a conflict advisor at the United Nations World Food Programme, focusing on the link between conflict and food insecurity in North Africa, the Middle East , the Sahel, and Ukraine.
She coordinated the research projects EUSPRING (2012-2015), on citizenship and state -society relations in North Africa after the Arab uprisings, and STREETPOL (2015-2019), on protests in the Arab world. More recently, she coordinated RAP-RISK (2023-2026) on political risk analysis and ITALINT (2025-2026) on international food security policy, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.