Role
Fixed-term researcher at the University of Salerno and Associate Research Fellow at the ISPI Middle East and North Africa Observatory.
Bio
Chiara Lovotti is an Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Observatory of ISPI. Previously, she was a Research Assistant at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve . She is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. She holds a degree in Foreign Languages and International Relations from the Catholic University of Milan, a Master's degree in Development Studies from the University of Louvain, Belgium, a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations in Milan, and has spent several periods studying at Lomonosov State University in Moscow.
Her research focuses on political transformations in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iraq and Syria, relations between Russia and the Middle Eastern countries, and Russian foreign policy towards the region. Her current academic research focuses on the impact of the Soviet Union on state-building processes in post-colonial Arab countries. For ISPI, she organizes the " Rome MED – Mediterranean Dialogues " conference, an annual forum promoted with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which brings together leaders from both sides of the Mediterranean—and beyond—with the aim of providing a platform for dialogue and discussion on issues such as security, economics, energy, and social transformation.