Francesco Schiavi is a Middle East international relations specialist focused on security, defense, and governance in the Levant and the Gulf. He is a freelance contributor to many international firms, including Al-Monitor and the NATO Defense College Foundation. For five years, he has been a researcher for the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), and since 2017, he coordinated the Middle East section of the Italian magazine Pandora. Since 2023, he has served as an advisor to the Steering Committee for the EuroMeSco Annual Conference, organized by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) in Barcelona in cooperation with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
