Antonio Missiroli

Antonio Missiroli (born 1955) is an Italian researcher, academic and former policymaker. He has worked for both the EU and NATO.

He has written articles and books on EU Foreign and Security Policy, EU Enlargement, EU Institutions and Comparative Politics.

Biography Missiroli gained his Master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) in 1997.

He worked as a journalist (corresponding from Germany during unification for "L'Indipendente", an Italian daily) and commentator on EU and international affairs.

Missiroli has lectured in several subjects at various universities, including European politics at the University of Bath, European security at the university of Trento, and transatlantic security at Boston University. He has also spent time as Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford (1996–1997). Before joining the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, he acted as Head of European Studies at CeSPI in Rome (1994–1997), and as Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels (2005–2010).

From January 2018 to October 2020, Missiroli was NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges.

As of 2023, Missiroli is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe in Bologna, a non-resident associate fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome, and a senior policy fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at the University of Leiden in The Hague.

Publications BEPA monthly (editor) 2010 and 2011 BEPA monthly Italy’s security and defence policy: between EU and US, or just Prodi and Berlusconi?, “Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans”, 2/2007 The EU Foreign Service (editor), EPC Working Paper, 28/2007 La difesa europea, Il Melangolo, Genova, 2007 (with Alessandro Pansa) Disasters, Diseases, Disruptions: A new D-Drive for the EU (editor), EU-ISS, Paris, 2005 Central Europe between the EU and NATO, “Survival”, Winter 2004/05