Silvia Colombo

Silvia Colombo is a Researcher and Faculty Advisor in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome. She is also Non-resident Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) where she previously acted as the head of the Mediterranean and Middle East programme. Her research work focuses on contemporary politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the EU and US foreign policy towards and their role in conflicts in the Middle East as well as the implications for NATO. Among her research interests there are also the relations between the EU, NATO and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and a Master’s Degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.