Loretta Napoleoni
{{Short description|Italian journalist and political analyst (born 1955)}}
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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.{{cite news |last1=Coll |first1=Maria |title=Loretta Napoleoni: "We're living in an ethical desert" |url=https://www.barcelona.cat/bcnmetropolis/2007-2017/en/calaixera/capital-emocional/loretta-napoleoni-vivim-en-un-desert-etic/ |access-date=22 December 2022 |work=Barcelona Metròpolis |date=2017}} She studied at Sapienza University, Rome. 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.{{cite web |title=About Me |url=https://www.lorettanapoleoni.com/bio |website=Loretta Napoleoni |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=it}} A childhood friend was arrested for involvement in the Red Brigades and Napoleoni wrote her PhD on the group.{{cite web |title=Terrorism Expert and Author Loretta Napoleoni to Lecture at Hamilton |url=https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/terrorism-expert-and-author-loretta-napoleoni-to-lecture-at-hamilton |website=Hamilton College |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=en}}
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.{{cite web|last=Stock|first=Sarah|url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=5497|title=Terrorism Economics|work=University of Sydney|date=26 August 2010|access-date=21 November 2014}} She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación Ideas para el Progreso,{{cite web|url=http://fundacionideas.es/en/scientific_commiteee |title=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |date=23 January 2013 }}{{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} the think tank of Spain's Socialist Party, and she is a partner with Oxfam Italia.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfamitalia.org/varie-pagine-singole/incontri-con-loretta-napoleoni |title=Incontri con Loretta Napoleoni |date=21 February 2011 |publisher=Oxfam Italia |access-date=2014-06-17}} Napoleoni's writing has appeared in Italian newspapers such as il Caffè,{{r|isis1}} La Repubblica,{{r|parma1}} and Il Fatto Quotidiano.{{cite news|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|title=Crisi economica o di sovranità politica? Se la Commissione europea fa abuso di potere|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/11/09/crisi-economica-sovranita-politica-se-commissione-europea-fa-abuso-potere/1200823/|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|date=November 2014|language=it}} She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the Spanish newspaper El Pais..{{cite news|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|title=La tercera guerra mundial|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/08/25/opinion/1408966217_268844.html|work=El Pais|date=August 2014}} She is chairperson of the Club de Madrid group studying the financing of terrorism.{{cite web |title=Criminal jihadism on the rise — A Q&A with Loretta Napoleoni |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/09/06/criminal-jihadism-on-the-rise-a-qa-with-loretta-napoleoni.html |website=The Star |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=en |date=6 September 2016}}
Selected works
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks|publisher=Pluto Press|location=London|year=2003|isbn=9780745321172}}
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks|year=2005|publisher=Seven Stories Press|location=New York|isbn=9781583226735}}
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World|year=2010|publisher=Seven Stories Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1583228951}}
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do|url=https://archive.org/details/maonomicswhychin0000napo|url-access=registration|year=2011 |publisher=Seven Stories Press|location=New York|isbn=9781609804312 |others=Translated by Stephen Twilley; foreword by Greg Palast}}
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business|year=2016|publisher=Penguin USA|isbn=9781609807085}}
- {{cite book|last=Napoleoni|first=Loretta|author-mask=1|title=Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good|year=2024|publisher=Seven Stories Press|location=New York|isbn=9781644213292 }}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.lorettanapoleoni.com/ }}
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Category:21st-century Italian women writers
Category:21st-century Italian journalists
Category:Historians of the Iraq War
Category:Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
Category:Scholars of terrorism