Loretta Napoleoni

Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism, connected finance, and security related topics.

Early life and education Napoleoni was born in Rome in 1955. She studied at Sapienza University, Rome. A childhood friend was arrested for involvement in the Red Brigades and Napoleoni wrote her PhD on the group. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación Ideas para el Progreso, the think tank of Spain's Socialist Party, and she is a partner with Oxfam Italia. Napoleoni's writing has appeared in Italian newspapers such as il Caffè, La Repubblica, and Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the Spanish newspaper El Pais.. She is chairperson of the Club de Madrid group studying the financing of terrorism.

Selected works