Bernardo Venturi

Bernardo Venturi is Senior Fellow at IAI, where he focuses on Africa, civilian crisis management, CFSP/CSDP, peacebuilding, and development. He holds a Ph.D. at the University of Bologna and has 14 years of experience in different think-tanks, universities and NGOs working on research, monitoring and evaluation, teaching, project management and advocacy. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Agency for Peacebuilding (AP) and he lectures for several international universities and training centres. At IAI, he currently works on different Africa-EU initiatives, contributes to the activities of the European Think Tank Group (ETTG) and leads the research project “Governance and security in the Sahel: tackling mobility, demography and climate change”.