Dario Cristiani

Dario Cristiani is a Senior Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London and an Associate Senior Researcher at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. From 2019 to 2025, he was Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) in Washington, D.C., working on Italian foreign policy, Mediterranean security, terrorism, and global politics. He is also a political risk consultant working with businesses operating in Mediterranean markets. Previously, he was a Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales in Pontypridd, and the director of the Executive Training in Global Risk Analysis and Crisis Management (GRACM), and an adjunct professor in International Affairs and Conflict Studies at Vesalius College (VUB) in Brussels. He received his Ph.D. in Middle East & Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London in 2015.