Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism, connected finance, and security related topics.
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Napoleoni was born in Rome in 1955.[1] She studied at Sapienza University, Rome.[1] She holds a MPhil in International Relations and an MA in Terrorism studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She studied as a Fulbright scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C..She was also a Rotary Scholar at the LSE.[2] A childhood friend was arrested for involvement in the Red Brigades and Napoleoni wrote her PhD on the group.[3][1]
In the early 1980s, she worked at the National Bank of Hungary on the convertibility of the Hungarian forint. This became the blueprint for the convertibility of the ruble a decade later.[4] She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación Ideas para el Progreso,[5] the think tank of Spain's Socialist Party, and she is a partner with Oxfam Italia.[6] Napoleoni's writing has appeared in Italian newspapers such as il Caffè,[7] La Repubblica,[8] and Il Fatto Quotidiano.[9] She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the Spanish newspaper El Pais..[10] She is chairperson of the Club de Madrid group studying the financing of terrorism.[11]
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