Andrea Gilli

Andrea Gilli

Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow

Areas of expertise:
Technology, strategy, military affairs,
defense policy

Andrea Gilli is Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Senior Advisor of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense in Italy and Expert Mentor of NATO DIANA (Defense Innovation Accelerator of the North Atlantic). Earlier, Andrea has been a Senior Researcher at the NATO Defense College, a Post-Doctoral fellow at both Harvard and Stanford universities, a Visiting Scholar at both Columbia and Johns Hopkins universtities and an Associate Fellow at at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. Andrea’s research has been published in the most important academic journals in his field, including International Security, Security Studies and Journal of Strategic Studies, has been featured by Nature, The Economist and the Washington Post and has won awards from the European Defense Agency and the Kissinger Center for International Affairs. Andrea has also consulted for the Italian Government, Italian Air Force, Leonardo, the International institute for Strategic Studies, the Aspen Institute and the U.S. Department of Defense and holds a PhD from the European University Institute.