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Nicolò Sartori

Nicolò Sartori

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Position
Associate fellow
Biography

Nicolò Sartori has a ten-year experience in the field of research. Specialized on energy and climate security analysis, he works also on the evolution of national, European and global policies in the energy, climate and sustainable development domain. Nicolò is Adjunct Professor in “Natural Resources and Energy Security" at the Master in International Security Studies (MISS) of the University of Trento and Professional Fellow at the World Energy Council (WEC). He is also regular contributor to the international magazine WE World Energy/About Energy, and was Senior Fellow and Head of the Energy, Climate & Resources Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). Prior to joining IAI, he served as Faculty Advisor at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he also conducted research on NATO’s role as energy security provider in the Caspian region.

He holds a BA in International and Diplomatic Studies from the School Roberto Ruffilli in Forlì and an MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna, and a specialization course in “Analysis and Management of Energy and Environmental Policy” from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) at Harvard University. Nicolò gives lectures on international and European energy, climate and sustainable development policies to different academic institutions, including Sciences Po’s Master in International Energy, and at the LUISS Guido Carli's Masters in International Security.

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Asia centrale
Russia
Sicurezza energetica

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In the media

  • About Energy - Sartori: New energy for Africa?

    04 September 2019
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  • About Energy - Sartori: Philippine elections, a quasi-plebiscite for Duterte

    28 May 2019
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  • About Energy - Sartori: Midterm elections. Crippled Trump

    08 November 2018
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Nona Mikhelidze

Nona Mikhelidze

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Position
Senior fellow
Biography

Nona Mikhelidze is a Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and an M.A. in Regionalism: Central Asia and Caucasian Studies from Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2020, she has been writing for the newspaper La Stampa and Il Foglio, focusing on Russia and the post-Soviet space. She is also a member of the European Leadership Network (ELN), an independent, non-partisan, pan-European network consisting of past, present, and future European leaders who work to provide practical real-world solutions to political and security challenges. Her research interests include the EU and Eastern Neighbourhood, as well as Russia and its foreign policy in the post-Soviet space. She frequently appears as a commentator on Italian TV and radio channels, discussing issues related to the Russian war against Ukraine. In 2023, she was awarded the Viareggio Prize as the journalist of the year for her contribution to the public debate on the war.

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Caucaso
Politica di vicinato Ue
Risoluzione dei conflitti
Russia

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Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro

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Position
Research coordinator; Head of the Global Actors Programme
Biography

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). His main area of expertise is transatlantic relations, with a particular focus on US and European policies towards Europe’s surrounding regions. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS). He has coordinated the EU-funded TRANSWORLD project on transatlantic relations and global governance (7th Framework Programme) and the JOINT project on EU foreign and security policy (Horizon 2020). Riccardo is the author of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-author, with Pol Bargués, of Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Relational Power Europe (Routledge, 2025). He also edited The Liberal Order and its Contestations (Routledge, 2018). He holds a summa cum laude PhD from the University of Tübingen.

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Iran
Nato
Relazioni transatlantiche
Russia

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