Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian

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and

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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. She studied at

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, Rome. She holds a

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and an MA in

Terrorism studies Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

from the

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(LSE). She studied as a

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at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),

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.She was also a

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at the LSE. A childhood friend was arrested for involvement in the

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and Napoleoni wrote her PhD on the group.

Career

In the early 1980s, she worked at the

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on the convertibility of the

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. This became the blueprint for the convertibility of the

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a decade later. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación Ideas para el Progreso, the think tank of Spain's Socialist Party, and she is a partner with Oxfam Italia. Napoleoni's writing has appeared in Italian newspapers such as ''il Caffè,'' ''La Repubblica,'' and ''Il Fatto Quotidiano.'' She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the Spanish newspaper ''El Pais.''. She is chairperson of the Club de Madrid group studying the financing of terrorism.

Selected works

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Napoleoni, Loretta 1955 births Living people Italian women writers Italian writers Italian journalists Italian women journalists Historians of the Iraq War Historians of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni Experts on terrorism People from Whitefish, Montana