Valeria Talbot

Valeria Talbot is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of ISPI’s Middle East and North Africa Centre. She also is a lecturer in the Masters in Middle Eastern Studies at ASERI, Catholic University of Milan. She was a senior investigator on the Arab Transformations Project, an FP7-funded research project on political and social transformation in the Arab World after the Arab uprisings in 2010- 2011. Her main research areas are Euro-Mediterranean relations, Turkey’s domestic-foreign policy, the Gulf monarchies and Middle East geopolitics. She is active as a scholar, contributing to research projects and publishing a number of papers, articles and books.