Alessandro Riccardo Ungaro - Istituto Affari Internazionali

Alessandro Riccardo Ungaro
Born in Viareggio (LU), Italy, in 1987. Nationality: Italian
Current address: Via Augusto Aubry 1, 00195, Rome, Italy
Permanent address: Via Trebazio 6, 2015, Milan, Italy
Business email: [email protected] - Private email: [email protected]
Mobile IT: +393389191720
Skype: alessandro.r2
Professional experience
International Affairs Institute (IAI), Rome, Italy
Research Fellow, Security and Defence Program
July 2014 - ongoing
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Research, monitoring and analysis of aerospace, defence and security industry and market trends; EDTIB and
transatlantic (NATO) linkages; defence policy regulations at national and EU level (EC, EDA, OCCAR, LoI,
etc.); CSDP;
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Project management of European (EC/H2020, EDA, etc.) and national projects funded by private
companies, political institutions and foundations;
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Tailored end-users and stakeholders’ engagement and outreach to universities and think tanks;
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> 50 publications among scientific journals, peer-reviewed articles, web-magazines, etc.;
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In charge of supervising the program’s traineeship activity
· Type of business/sector: leading think tank in international affairs and security/defence policy
International Affairs Institute (IAI), Rome, Italy
Junior Research Fellow, Security and Defence Program
April 2012 - June 2014
· Type of business/sector: leading think tank in international affairs and security/defence policy
International Affairs Institute (IAI), Rome, Italy
Intern, Security and Defence Program
September 2010 - December 2010
· Type of business/sector: leading think tank in international affairs and security/defence policy
Other professional experience
Federal Ministry of Defense and Bundeswehr Centre for Public Affairs, Berlin, Germany
5th European Seminar Fellow
· 10-17 September 2016
· Bonn, Cologne, Brunssum, Geilenkirchen, Brussels, Berlin
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden
Italian Point of Contact (POC), Arms & Military Expenditure Program (SIPRI Yearbook)
September 2012 – ongoing
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Education
MIP Politecnico, Milan, Italy + EADA Business School, Barcelona, Spain
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10th International MBA
MBA scholarship for assistantship activity: € 7.500
October 2016 – 2018
Active contributor to #growingleader blog. A blog dedicated to the growing leadership attitude
Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI), Rome, Italy
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Post-graduate course in Economic Security, Geopolitics and Intelligence
February 2013 - July 2013
Final result: A+
Dissertation published: The rare-earth market: political and financial aspects (IT)
Supervisor Elisabetta Kustermann (International trade and development expert)
International Affairs Institute (IAI), Rome, Italy
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IAI-Finmeccanica Thesis Fellowship
October 2011 - March 2012
Dissertation published: Offsets in the defence market and the Indian case (IT)
Supervisor Prof. Michele Nones (Former Director of the Security and Defence Program at IAI)
Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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MSc., European and International Politics (110/110 cum laude)
October 2009 - April 2012
Dissertation: The regulatory-political risk in the defence market. Offsets and the Indian case (IT)
Supervisor Prof. Simona Beretta (International economics)
The dissertation was conducted in partnership with the IAI-Finmeccanica Thesis Fellowship (see above)
Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI), Milan, Italy
· Summer School in Analysis of International Relations
· July 2009
Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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B.A., Political Science and International Relations
October 2007 - April 2010
Dissertation: The admission of Albania in NATO (IT)
Supervisor Prof. Massimo De Leonardis (history of IR and institutions/history of treaties and International
politics)
· The dissertation was conducted through fieldwork and interviews in Albania at the Ministry of Defence and the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Honours, Fellowships and Memberships
· Member of L-Move community: a start-up community
· MBA scholarship for assistantship at MIP Politecnico, Graduate School of Business
· Member of Young Professional in Foreign Policy
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Member of SIOI Alumni Association
Member of Alumni Cattolica – Associazione Ludovico Necchi
Member of Defence and its realms (a scientific community on defence and security studies)
Member of Finmeccanica’s Research Community
IAI-Finmeccanica Thesis Fellowship, 2011-2012
Catholic University, Graduated cum laude, 2012
Languages
· Italian (native)
· English (fluent)
· International House, Dublin, UK, 2008
· Regent School, London, UK, 2005
· French (basic)
· Le Centre Culturel Français, Milan, Italy, 2011
· Private lessons in Tirana, Albania, summer 2009
Professional and personal skills
· Communication skills: attitude towards establishing good interpersonal relations in multicultural environments
(acquired by studying at university and working at IAI); strong attitude to mediate and solve problems efficiently
(acquired by studying at university and working at IAI);
· Organizational skills: project management, including the ability to run multiple projects under time pressure
(developed, tested and improved by working at IAI); flexibility to operate in different working environments and in
different frameworks (acquired mainly by working at IAI).
· Job-related skills: research, analytical, writing and editing skills (acquired by studying at university and working at
IAI).
Speaker at national and international conferences (a selection)
· 2017, speaker at Network Enabled Capability Technology Conference, organized by SMi Group. Title of the
presentation: Overcoming the Challenges of Netcentric Capability Technology.
· 2016, “Moving Forward the EU-India Security Dialogue: Traditional and Emerging Issues”, part of the EU-India
Think Tank Twinning Initiative funded by the European Union. Presentation of IAI paper EU-India Defence
Cooperation: A European Perspective.
· 2016, “The Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for the European security”. Presentation of the IAI volume The
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and the European security. Technological and operational challenges.
· 2014, international conference organized by CESICE (University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble) and ENSTA
Bretagne (Brest) entitled “The future of the European defence industry at stake”, Grenoble (France). Presentation
of the paper European defence industry and dual-use technologies.
· 2013, “17th Annual International Conference on Economics and Security” (ICES), SIPRI, Stockholm. Presentation
of the paper Trends of the defence offsets market.
Publications (IT=Italian)
· Alessandro R. Ungaro and Stefania Benaglia, “EU-India Defence Cooperation: A European Perspective”, in IAI
Working Paper, Issue: 16|35, December 2016.
· “European Defence Action Plan: un passo Avanti”, AffarInternazionali, December 2016 (IT).
· Alessandro R. Ungaro and Daniele Fattibene, “L’impatto della Brexit per la difesa europea e transatlantica: tanti
dubbi e poche certezze”, in Approfondimento dell’Osservatorio di politica internazionale, Roma, Senato, November 2016.
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· “Droni e sicurezza”, in Portale Difesa, 28 July 2016.
· “Italy in the Mediterranean: Commercial Challenges, Changing Infrastructure and New Maritime Traffic”, in
Alessandro Marrone and Michele Nones (eds.), Italy and Security in the Mediterranean, IAI Research Paper, n. 24,
October 2016.
· Alessandro R. Ungaro e Paola Sartori, “I velivoli a pilotaggio remoto e la sicurezza europea. Sfide tecnologiche e
operative”, Quaderni IAI, n. 16, July 2016 (IT).
· Alessandro R. Ungaro e Paola Sartori, “Droni: protezione e sicurezza oltre la difesa”, AffarInternazionali, July 2016
(IT).
· “Difesa Ue, una luce fuori dal tunnel”, AffarInternazionali, March 2016 (IT).
· “Difesa, il lungo risveglio di Berlino”, AffarInternazionali, February 2016 (IT).
· “Finmeccanica, tra One Company e competitor europei”, in Airpress, January 2016 (IT).
· Andrea Gilli, Alessandro R. Ungaro and Alessandro Marrone, “The Italian White Paper for International Security
and Defence”, in The RUSI Journal, December 2015, Vol. 160, No. 6, pp. 34-41.
· “L’Italia nel Mediterraneo tra sfide commerciali, infrastrutturali e nuovi traffici navali”, in Alessandro Marrone and
Michele Nones (eds.), La sicurezza nel Mediterraneo e l’Italia, Quaderni IAI, n. 15, November 2015 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Politica di difesa, strumento militare e
operazioni nel Mediterraneo”, in Alessandro Marrone and Michele Nones (eds.), “La sicurezza nel Mediterraneo e
l’Italia”, Quaderni IAI, n. 15, November 2015 (IT).
· “The White Paper: a strategic partnership between the MoD and the industrial sector”, in Alessandro Marrone
(ed.), “The White Paper: A Strategy for Italy’s Defence Policy”, Documenti IAI, June 2015.
· “Libro Bianco: partnership strategica tra Difesa e industria”, in Alessandro Marrone (ed.), “Il Libro bianco: una
strategia per la politica di difesa dell’Italia”, Documenti IAI, May 2015 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone, Alessandro R. Ungaro and Michele Nones (eds.), “Innovazione tecnologica e difesa: Forza
NEC nel quadro euro-atlantico, Quaderni IAI, n. 14, May 2015 (IT).
· “Dualità e partnership per i programmi”, Speciale Libro Bianco, Airpress, May 2015 (IT).
· “Una partnership strategica tra Difesa e industria”, AffarInternazionali, May 2015 (IT).
· “Da Leonardo ai robot: droni e dintorni”, in Aspenia Rivista, n. 68, April 2015 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone, Alessandro R. Ungaro and Michele Nones, “Technological Innovation and Italian Armed
Forces Training: Challenges and Opportunities”, in Documenti IAI, n. 15/02E, January 2015 (also in IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “L’importanza dell’addestramento”, Airpress, January 2015 (IT).
· “L’Ue di Renzi spende meglio e insieme in difesa”, AffarInternazionali, January 2015 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Elicotteri, i vantaggi della dualità”, Airpress, December 2014
(IT).
· “Addestramento, è tempo di agire”, AffarInternazionali, December 2014 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, Actors in the European Defence Policy Area: Roles and Developments,
Report of the Istituto Affari internazionali (IAI) and the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF), November 2014.
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Verso una nuova strategia per la proiezione esterna dell'UE?
Lo stato dell’arte”, in Valerio Briani (ed.), Focus euroatlantici dell’Osservatorio di politica internazionale, n. 8, NovemberDecember 2014 (IT).
· “Il caso studio italiano”, in Alessandro Marrone and Michele Nones (eds.), “Gli elicotteri duali nel campo della
sicurezza e difesa”, Quaderni IAI, n. 13, October 2014 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “L’opzione degli elicotteri duali”, AffarInternazionali, October
2014 (IT).
· Jean Pierre Darnis and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Frenata francese verso la Russia, stop alle Mistral”,
AffarInternazionali, September 2014.
· “Difesa, fusione franco-tedesca alle porte”, AffarInternazionali, September 2014 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Difesa, come spendere poco e male”, AffarInternazionali July
2014 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone, Alessandro R. Ungaro and Paola Sartori, Defence budgets and industry: tables and graphs, July
2014 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “The relations between United States of America and Italy in the
post-Cold War period: a defense industrial perspective”, in Cahiers de la Méditerranée, n. 88, June 2014.
· “Missioni all’estero e componente aerea, l’Italia c’è”, AffarInternazionali, May 2014 (IT).
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· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Il lato industriale ed europeo degli F-35”, IlSole24Ore, 13 May
2014 (IT).
· “Quale industria per il Libro bianco della difesa?”, Italianieuropei, n. 04/2014 (IT).
· Vincenzo Camporini et al., “The Italian fighter aircraft’s role in crisis management operations: trends and needs”,
IAI Research Paper, n. 15, March 2014 (also in IT).
· Paola Tessari and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Risposta italiana alle calamità naturali”, AffarInternazionali, March
2014 (IT).
· Federica Di Camillo, Alessandro Marrone, Stefano Silvestri, Paola Tessari and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “The
Italian Civil Security System”, IAI Research Paper, n. 11, February 2014 (also in IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, La cooperazione nella difesa e il Consiglio europeo di dicembre: la
situazione e le opzioni per l’Italia, Roma, Camera dei Deputati, Approfondimenti/Osservatorio di politica
internazionale; 87, December 2013 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “The Evolution of AGC: Power and Technology” in Claudio
Catalano (ed.), Global Commons: Threat or Opportunity?, Roma, Finmeccanica Research Department (Occasional paper
Finmeccanica), October 2013.
· Alessandro Marrone, Elena Cesca and Alessandro R. Ungaro, Defence budgets and industry: tables and graphs, July 2013
(also in IT).
· “Le compensazioni industriali nel mercato della difesa e il caso indiano”, Quaderno IAI, n. 4, Nuova Cultura, Roma,
2012 (IT).
· “Developments in and obstacles to the US pivot to Asia: what alternatives for Europe?”, IAI Working Papers 12/24,
September 2012.
· “Il mercato delle terre rare: aspetti politici e finanziari”, Documenti IAI, n.13/04, July 2012 (IT). Revised version of
a master’s dissertation in economic security, geopolitics and intelligence, which was discussed in 2013 at SIOI.
· Long Review for The International Spectator, n. 03/2013, published by Routledge of “The strategic use of military
contractors”, by Marcus Mohlin.
· “L’export italiano riprende respiro”, AffarInternazionali, July 2012 (IT).
· “Passi da gigante della difesa in India”, AffarInternazionali, May 2012 (IT).
· Alessandro Marrone, Federica Di Camillo, Valerio Briani and Alessandro R. Ungaro, “Le attività nel campo della
sicurezza e difesa", in Gianni Bonvicini and Alessandro Colombo (eds.), La politica estera dell'Italia, Edizione 2011,
Bologna, Il Mulino, March 2011, p. 69-76 (IT).
· “Forze armate alla ricerca dell’equilibrio perduto”, AffarInternazionali, December 2010 (IT).
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