Head of the Defence, Security and Space Programme, Director of IAI Documents

Alessandro Marrone is Head of IAI “Defence, security and space” programme. He has been working at IAI since 2007, and currently manages research projects and publications related to European and transatlantic security as well as to Italy’s defence policy. Since 2018 he is also Professor at the Istituto Superiore di Stato Maggiore Interforze of the Italian Ministry of Defence, after four years of teaching at the University of Perugia. He has been mentor at the NATO Defence College, and since 2016 is member of the Scientific Board of the Armament Industry European Research Group (ARES Group).

He is a member of the Editorial Board of IAI web-magazine AffarInternazionali and collaborates with several Italian magazines including Airpress, Aspenia, Eastwest, Formiche, Huffington Post, Rivista Italiana Difesa and Rivista marittima. He frequently appears on national television, radio and newspapers in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other international security issues.