Tommaso De Zan was an associate fellow with the Security and Defence Programme at IAI. His main research interests lie at the intersection between technology, national security and public policy.

Alessandro Riccardo Ungaro was Research Fellow in the "Security, Defence, Space" Programme at IAI, where he worked on projects and studies related to the aerospace, defence and security industry and market at international, European and national level. After completing an internship at IAI, he authored a dissertation about offsets in the international and Indian defence market within the IAI training of experts programme between 2011 and 2012. Since 2012, he has been collaborating with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and in 2016 he was selected by the Bundeswehr Centre for Public Affairs in Berlin to participate to the “5th European Seminar”. He holds a BA degree and a MSc degree with first-class honors in Political Science and International Relations from the Catholic University (Milan campus). In 2013 he successfully completed a Master in Economics Security, Geopolitics and Intelligence from Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI). Currently, he is MBA student at MIP Politecnico, Graduate Business School in Milan. His research interests include international relations, EU Common Security and Defence Policy, NATO, as well as economic, industrial and technological aspects related to defence market and procurement.

Stefano Silvestri has been President of the International Affairs Institute from 2001 to 2013. He has been a lead writer for Il Sole 24 Ore since 1985. Between January 1995 and May 1996 he served as Under Secretary of State for Defence, having been an advisor to the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, for European matters, in 1975, and a consultant to the Prime Minister's Office under various Governments. He continues to act as a consultant to both for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministries of Defence and Industry. As a professional journalist, he has been a special correspondent and columnist for Globo (1982), member of the Policy Committee of Europeo (1979), and has contributed articles on foreign and defence policy to numerous national daily papers. He was Professor for Mediterranean Security Issues at the Bologna Centre of Johns Hopkins University (1972-1976), and has worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (1971-1972). He is currently a member of administrative council of the Italian Industries Federation for Aerospace, Defence and Security (AIAD), and of the Trilateral Commission.