Biography

Oreste Foppiani is a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He has taught International History and Politics for over thirteen years at Webster University Geneva, where he chaired the Department of International Relations from 2013 through 2022. He taught or researched at New York University’s Centre for European & Mediterranean Studies, Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS in Washington, DC, Aoyama Gakuin University’s School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, and the JMSDF Command & Staff College. He published four monographs and a dozen peer-reviewed articles in Il Politico, Nuova Rivista Storica, European History Quarterly, and Relations internationales.

He is also an Italian Navy senior reserve officer. From 2016 through 2020, entre autres, he served at the Third Department of the Italian Navy’s General Staff Corps, the EUNAVFOR Med Operation SOPHIA’s Headquarters, and the Office of the Italian Defense Attaché in Paris.

He holds a PhD in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies and is a trained IHL instructor, LEGAD, and POLAD.