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Marianna Lunardini

Position
Research Fellow for Development cooperation
Biography

Marianna Lunardini is Research Fellow in the IAI "Geoeconomics and global governance" programme, where her activities are focused on development cooperation and international relations. She is also a researcher at the University of Siena, working on the project “Going global: An international history of Italy (1979-1996)”. With a master’s degree in Law, she is a qualified lawyer and holds a PhD in Political Studies from Sapienza University and two post master’s degree from SIOI. Her doctoral thesis centered on Italian foreign politics and development cooperation. In 2022, she has been a visiting PhD student at Fordham University (NYC). She has also been a research fellow at CeSPI ETS and is currently a member of the 3iM coordination group.

Her publications include:
- (with M. Nicoletti), M. Lunardini (eds), Politica estera e diritti umani, Donzelli, 2024
- (with C. Nelu, B. Pescetto) M. Lunardini, AI and other Technologies for a Sustainable Development, CeSPI, 2024
- M. Lunardini, "Un'inedita pagina di neoatlantismo: la cooperazione italiana e il salvataggio dei Templi di Abu Simbel (1959-1963)", in Rivista italiana di storia internazionale, n. /2023, p. 333-360

Publications

Data pubblicazione

Trade, arms and development in Africa. The Italian cooperation with the Congo in the Sixties

Interdisciplinary Political Studies
Autori
Marianna Lunardini
Details
in Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (July 2026), p. 41-59
In: Altri paper e articoli
Data pubblicazione

Reshaping Italy’s development cooperation? Continuity and innovation in the Mattei Plan’s health pillar

Autori
Marianna Lunardini
Sara Vicinanza
Details
in Contemporary Italian Politics, 8 August 2026
In: Other papers and articles
Data pubblicazione

Assessing the Age of Unaccompanied Foreign Children and Adolescents with AI: New Innovations, Old Dilemmas

The International Journal for Children’s Rights
Autori
Marianna Lunardini
Details
(with Susanna Corona Maioli) in The International Journal for Children’s Rights, 31 March 2026
In: Other papers and articles

In the media

African Mining Market: Africa’s critical minerals boom is outpacing its accountability systems

International Studies: Italy-Africa Digital Partnership under the Mattei Plan

Radio General San Martín: puntata del 30 aprile

Research

The project aims to strengthen knowledge and strategic dialogue on cooperation between Italy and Mozambique in the field of global health. Within the framework of the Mattei Plan, the initiative…
The project aims to analyse the Italian development cooperation agenda within the evolving global landscape, with a specific focus on high-level policy analysis and multi-stakeholder dialogue. From…
The project is organized into three interdependent pillars. The first pillar, the Private Sector Lab, aims to build a dialogue with Italian companies by fostering partnerships with the Global Fund to…