International Advisory Council

Founder of the Center for Balkan and Black Sea Studies. A native of Bulgaria, Alex Alexiev was educated at Sofia State University and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received graduate and post-graduate degrees in political science. He has over thirty years of experience in the national security area, including seventeen […]

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History – Cambridge University Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 Squadron (Intelligence) in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, and […]

Associate Professor – University of Haifa u.joseph@strategicstudies.it

Barak Ben-Zur is a strategic threats and risks analyzer, specialized in strategic intelligence analysis and counterterrorism. As colonel in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Dr. Ben-Zur served the military intelligence branch from 1991 to 1994 as head of the terrorism section. From 1994 to 1996, he was chief instructor in Israel’s National Security College. In […]

Counselor Dr. Mathew J. Burrows was appointed Counselor to the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in July, 2007, and Director of the Analysis and Production Staff (APS) in January 2010.  In 2003-2007, as Director of APS, he was responsible for managing a staff of senior analysts and production technicians who guide and shepherd all NIC products-not […]

Deputy Public Prosecutor s.dambruoso@strategicstudies.it Deputy Public Prosecutor s.dambruoso@strategicstudies.it  

National Security Expert Mr. Fritz W. Ermarth retired on 1 October 1998 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service of CIA. He has worked over 40 years on national security affairs in government, academic, and commercial institutions specializing in Soviet, strategic, and regional conflict issues and performing management roles in intelligence, analytical, and policy […]

Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow – Stanford University I returned to Stanford in January 2009 to share and teach what I had learned during twenty-three years in Washington that included four years as the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and eleven years (in various positions, including Assistant […]

Valeria Fiorani PiacentiniProfessor of History and Institutions of Muslim Countries – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan Valeria Fiorani Piacentini is Full Professor of History and Institutions of Muslim Countries in the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano – Italy (Faculty of Political Science). Director of the Athenaeum Centre “CRiSSMA” (Research Centre on  the […]

Director of Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies – London Mr. Fitzpatrick’s research focus includes nuclear proliferation concerns and preventing nuclear danger in the emerging ‘nuclear renaissance’. He is the author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes (IISS Adelphi Paper 398, 2008) and has written articles on non-proliferation in the […]

Senior Lecturer at King’s College – London Dr Michael S. Goodman is a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history and scientific intelligence, including Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2008), and more […]

Jason Healey is the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, focusing on international cooperation, competition and conflict in cyberspace. He edited the first-ever history of cyber conflict, A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012 and co-authored the book Cyber Security Policy Guidebook by Wiley. His ideas on cyber topics have been widely published in […]

Prof. Virgilio Ilari was born in Rome in 1948, former Professor of Roman Law and History of Military Institutions at the Catholic University of Milan, is President of the Italian Society of Military History. He has been consultant for the Italian Army Chief of Staff (SME), the Italian Defense Institute of Studies and Research (ISTRID), […]

Lieutenant General Carlo JEAN was born in Mondovì (Cuneo) on 12th of October 1936. He attended the Military Academy in Modena from 1953 to 1955, the Service Branch School in Torino from 1955 to1957, the Italian and French Senior Staff College and the Centre for High Defense Studies. During his Army Staff period he was […]

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of International Affairs. He matriculated with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1969. In post-doctoral activities, he was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and has studied nuclear weapons policy at Harvard and MIT. His professional career has followed two tracks: […]

Senior Associate – Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C. Edward Luttwak is a CSIS senior associate and has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, and a number of allied governments […]

Journalist and Expert on Transnational Crime a.nicaso@strategicstudies.itJournalist and Expert on Transnational Crime a.nicaso@strategicstudies.it

Visiting Professor – King’s College, LondonDavid Omand GCB is a visiting professor at King’s College London.  He  was appointed in 2002 as the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and “homeland security”. He served for seven years on the […]

Expert in Strategic Studies, he has taught courses in marketing, international and business strategy at various universities, including LUISS in Rome, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Political Science in Padua, Bocconi University in Milan, International and Diplomatic Sciences in Gorizia, and Communication Sciences in Trieste. A commentator and analyst for numerous newspapers and television outlets […]

Intelligence Expert m.valentini@strategicstudies.it  

Visiting Fellow – Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich Visiting Fellow – Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich Visiting Fellow – Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich Lorenzo Vidino, Doctor of Philosophy, is an academic and security expert who specializes in Islamism and political violence in Europe and North America. Currently a visiting fellow at the Center for […]

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication – Institute of World Politics, Washington D.C. J. Michael Waller holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in International Communication, and directs the Institute’s graduate programs on public diplomacy and political warfare. He has been a scholar-practitioner in public diplomacy, political warfare, psychological operations and information operations […]

Lecturer of International Relations and Strategic Studies – University of Reading, UK Dale Walton is Lecturer of International Relations and Strategic Studies at University of Reading (February 2007-present) and researcher Department of Politics and International Relations, Reading, UK. He is specialized in topics related to strategic studies and international politics. Other employment: – Assistant Professor […]

Henrik S. Werenskiold has more than a decade of experience in journalism and geopolitical research, specializing in international relations and political economy, with a particular focus on foreign policy journalism for the past five years. His early career included in-depth research in the same field, where he built a robust understanding of global dynamics and […]

Procuratore aggiunto presso la Procura della Repubblica di Napoli. Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor and Professor of Criminal Law  Mr. Fausto Zuccarelli is Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor at the Court of Naples – Italy, Professor of Criminal Law at the “Federico II” University of Naples and Deputy National Antimafia Prosecutor of Italy from 1998 to 2009. […]