Publications

Glauco Calzuola is an international consultant and former EU Ambassador with extensive experience in international relations, development, and Europe-Africa relations. His career began as an infrastructure engineer before transitioning to roles within the European Commission. A significant portion of his work has been focused on fostering cooperation and development in Africa. He served as Head of Delegation in Rwanda from 1997 to 2000. Following this, he returned to HQ to lead negotiations with West African and Central African countries. His expertise led to his appointment as EU Ambassador in Angola in 2002, where he served until 2006, followed by a similar role in Mozambique from 2006 to 2011. These ambassadorships highlight his skills in diplomacy and managing international relations at a high level. From 2011 to 2015, he served at the General Directorate for International Cooperation and Development. His career reflects a deep commitment to international development and cooperation, particularly within the African context.

Hans Ole Müller has a background in international supply chain management and operations in both corporate and donor-funded environments. During and after his Bachelor Degree in Logistics Management from the Hamburg School of Business Administration, he worked for six years for the liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd as well as the Copenhagen-based social start-up 4Life Solutions.

In his Master’s thesis at LUISS (M.Sc. Global Management & Politics), he focused on humanitarian aid and the operational reality of delivering aid to the people it was intended for. Title: “Feeding the Hungry, Not the System: How can the World Food Programme Prevent Aid Diversion in Fragile States?”

He is interested in humanitarian logistics, agrifood supply chains, maritime economy, and international cooperation.

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Niger. Previously he worked as senior manager of the uranium industry in Niger. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of the NPCA (New Partnership for Africa’s Development-NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency), which he transformed into the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) between 2009 and 2022, and he is former President of the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC). He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique of Quebec, Canada and holds a PhD in Administrative Sciences from the University of Paris I. Since 2022, he has been co-teaching the course on African Politics and Institutions at LUISS University in Rome. Since 2023, he has been the African Union Special Envoy for Food Systems.

Ilaria Cinelli is a senior engineer and leader in healthcare and space exploration with over a decade of experience. Her expertise includes space medicine, expeditions, and global health initiatives. She holds degrees in biomedical engineering and a doctorate in neural engineering. Ilaria is a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and co-chairs an educational curriculum on Space and Global Health with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the World Health Organization. She is a prolific author, speaker, and recipient of numerous awards, shaping the future of space and healthcare.

Ilaria Lorusso is a PhD candidate in Politics at LUISS Guido Carli. Her research focuses on EU external action, particularly in migration policy, and on the role of gender in EU foreign policy. She holds a Research Master in European Studies from Maastricht University, where she also held the role of research assistant within the EU-funded PhD program “LIMES – The Hardening and Softening of Borders: Europe in a Globalizing World” and later of teaching fellow for the European Studies and Global Studies programs. She is currently a teaching assistant at LUISS.

Attorney-at-Law in Milan (Italy). Associate Professor of International Law of the Sea, Ocean Affairs Law and Policy, Maritime Law (Master courses), and Polar Law (PhD course) at University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Deputy-Director of the PhD programme in Marine Sciences, Technology and Management at University of Milano-Bicocca and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). Scientific Advisor to the Italian Navy since 2023. Visiting Fellow at Center of Maritime Military Studies, Venice, since 2026. Visiting lecturer at NATO Defense College and other higher education institutions. Member of the Italian Delegation in United Nations’ and International Hydrographic Organization’s working groups, negotiations, and processes related to the law of the sea, including its technical aspects. Legal consultant for States, private sector, and international secretariats on matters related to the law of the sea. Former Associate Legal Officer at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations (UNDOALOS, New York, United States).

Dr Irene Morlino is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Visiting Professor in International Conflict Management at ESADE in Barcelona. She is also a Project Associate with the LSE IDEAS project Si Vis Pacem: Reimagining Security through Peace.

Her research focuses on humanitarian aid and conflict management, as well as European foreign, security and defence policy. Her latest book, Humanitarian Aid and the European Union: An Analysis of its Effectiveness in the Field (Routledge, 2026), offers an empirical and comparative analysis of the effectiveness of humanitarian aid programmes in Myanmar, Lebanon, Mozambique and Mali.

She was previously an LSE Fellow in European Security and Defence, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in international politics and European security and defence. She received the LSE Class Teacher Award in 2021–2022 and was awarded the Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Prize for the best PhD thesis in LSE’s Department of International Relations.

Dr Morlino has been a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Visiting PhD Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She has also worked with international organisations, including the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, and International IDEA at the United Nations in New York.

She holds a PhD in International Relations from LSE, a Master’s in European Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from LUISS Guido Carli.

Irene Olmi joined Reverdin Consulting in April 2025 as a consultant, specialising in the agrifood sector and contributing to the firm’s work on sustainable food systems and multilateral organizations. Within CISS, she supports Marc Reverdin as a Strategic Advisor in the Agrifood Unit. Irene previously worked as an EU Policy Consultant in Brussels with a focus on the agrifood, tech, and defence sectors. She holds two Master’s degrees from SOAS, University of London, in International Politics and Diplomatic Studies.