Role
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Observatory, ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies).
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Catania, Valeria Talbot obtained a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
She is a Senior Research Fellow and head of the ISPI Observatory on the Middle East and North Africa. She is also a visiting professor at the Master in Middle Eastern Studies at ASERI, where she teaches Euro-Mediterranean Relations, and from 2015 to 2017, she taught History and Institutions of the Middle East at IULM University in Milan. She also coordinates ISPI's short courses on Europe and the Mediterranean and the Gulf countries, and is invited to conferences and give interviews in Italy and abroad.
His research interests include political and security dynamics in the broader Mediterranean , the role of external actors, the socio-political transformations triggered by the 2011 Arab Spring, Turkey 's policy in the Middle East and towards Asia, and the monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Since 2015, she has worked at the annual Rome MED Dialogues conference and coordinated the MED Report. Since 2016, she has edited the quarterly report "Full Mediterranean Focus" for the Italian Parliament's Observatory of International Politics. From 2013 to 2016, she was the scientific coordinator of the Arab Trans project and the 2020 Treccani-ISPI Geopolitical Atlas.