Loretta Napoleoni
Italian journalist and political analyst
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Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism , connected finance, and security related topics.
Early life and education
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]
Career
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]
Selected works
- — (2003). Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks . London: Pluto Press . ISBN 9780745321172 .
- — (2005). Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks . New York: Seven Stories Press . ISBN 9781583226735 .
- — (2010). Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World . New York: Seven Stories Press . ISBN 978-1583228951 .
- — (2011). Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do . Translated by Stephen Twilley; foreword by Greg Palast. New York: Seven Stories Press . ISBN 9781609804312 .
- — (2016). Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business . Penguin USA . ISBN 9781609807085 .
References
- 1 2 3 Coll, Maria (2017). "Loretta Napoleoni: "We're living in an ethical desert" " . Barcelona Metròpolis . Retrieved 22 December 2022 .
- ↑ "About Me" . Loretta Napoleoni (in Italian) . Retrieved 22 December 2022 .
- ↑ "Terrorism Expert and Author Loretta Napoleoni to Lecture at Hamilton" . Hamilton College . Retrieved 22 December 2022 .
- ↑ Stock, Sarah (26 August 2010). "Terrorism Economics" . University of Sydney . Retrieved 21 November 2014 .
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: Cite uses generic title ( help ) [ dead link ] - ↑ "Incontri con Loretta Napoleoni" . Oxfam Italia. 21 February 2011 . Retrieved 17 June 2014 .
- ↑ Napoleoni, Loretta (September 2014). "Isis. Forza e pericoli dello Stato del terrore" . il Caffè .
- ↑ Napoleoni, Loretta (June 2012). "Napoleoni: "Se riparte Parma riparte l'Italia" L'economista al lavoro con Pizzarotti" . La Repubblica .
- ↑ Napoleoni, Loretta (November 2014). "Crisi economica o di sovranità politica? Se la Commissione europea fa abuso di potere" . Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian).
- ↑ Napoleoni, Loretta (August 2014). "La tercera guerra mundial" . El Pais .
- ↑ "Criminal jihadism on the rise — A Q&A with Loretta Napoleoni" . The Star . 6 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 December 2022 .
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