Valeria Giannotta is an Italian academic expert in International
Relations with a specific focus on Turkish Politics and the enlarged
Mediterranean. She is the Scientific Director of Türkiye
Observatory of CeSPI (Center for International Political Studies);
she is President of the Study Center U.C.O. I (Union of Honorary
Consuls in Italy).
She studied Political Science and International Relations at the
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan campus, where she
graduated with full marks cum laude and where she obtained a
PhD in Institutions and Politics.