Europe Between Two Wars: The Role of Italy Within Europe

Day 1 - Panel 1 of the 2024 Italian Symposium.
Panel discussion will be in English.

Barbara Serra is an Italian-born British-based journalist and author who’s been presenting on Sky News since October 2023. From 2006 to 2022 Serra anchored the main European Newshour for Al Jazeera English, where she also reported from across Europe and the Middle East. In 2019 Serra was made a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the Italian President. Her 2020 documentary ‘Fascism in the Family’ won gold for both the 'History' and 'Current Affairs' categories at the New York Festivals TV and Film categories.

Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute), Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and independent non-executive director of Acea. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She is Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). She was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and, prior to joining Acea, she was independent board member first of Edison and then of Eni. She has held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington, the European University Institute, Florence, and has taught at the College of Europe, Bruges.