Loretta Napoleoni
The economist and journalist Loretta Napoleoni is a specialist on terrorism, economy and the Arabic world, offering an unprecedented perspective: that of Islamic terrorism.
Since 1981, she has been working as a consultant in London, as an economist for the International Monetary Fund, the National Bank of Hungary, Chase Manhattan and the Laurie Millbank Stockbroker Agency, as well as being head economist of the Moscow Narodny Bank. She has also been a consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Since the eighties, she has been correspondent for Italian financial newspapers and journals, including Corriere della Sera and Milano Finanza. For these and other publications, she has taken numerous interviews with former members of the Italian Red Brigades, members of other terrorist organizations, and Italian politicians and magistrates. In the early nineties, after the first attack against the World Trade Center in New York, Napoleoni became specialized in international Arabic terrorism. Since then, due to her work as a consultant, she has traveled assiduously to Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and other countries in the Middle East, where she has had the opportunity of contacting major political and financial leaders.
Loretta Napoleoni got a degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University, USA, in 1981, after obtaining one of the prestigious Fulbright Grants.
She is the author of the novel, Dossier Baghdad, as well as the non-fiction book, Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks.
She currently lives with her husband in London, where she researches and studies terrorism at the London School of Economics.
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