Loretta Napoleoni

Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy.

Napoleoni was born and raised in Rome, Italy. An active member of the feminist movement in the mid 1970s, she was a a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has an M.Phil. in Terrorism from LSE, a Master's in International Relations from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rome.

Napoleoni's writing appears regularly in many journals and publications, including several European newspapers. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for several Italian financial papers. She was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence.

Napoleoni has written novels, guide books in Italian and translated and edited books on terrorism. Her best-selling book "Terror Incorporated" Seven Stories Press was translated into 12 languages. "Dossier Baghdad" is a financial thriller set during the Persian Gulf War. Another nonfiction book, "Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation", was also published by Seven Stories Press. Her last book, "Rogue Economics", has been published in April 2008 by Seven Stories Press in the US, and Turnaround in the UK.

As an economist Napoleoni has worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the United States. In the early 1980s she worked at the National Bank of Hungary on the convertibility of the Hungarian forint that became the blue print for the convertibility of the ruble a decade later.

As well as lecturing regularly on the financing of terrorism, Napoleoni advises several governments on counter-terrorism. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.

Napoleoni lives in London, England, and Whitefish, Montana, with her husband and children.
From 2007 she is Director of the first italian investigative journalism course.

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# Penguin Books" Author Search Results" [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000065755,00.html] . Retrieved on 2007-11-12
# Goodman, Amy "Italian Writer Loretta Napoleoni on the Amman Triple Bombing, How the U.S. Helped Create Zarqawi and the Terror Financing Network" - Interview [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/10/1527205] DemocracyNow!.org. Retrieved on 2007-11-12
# The Senlis Council "The Third International Symposium on Global Drug Policy: Paris 2004" - Guest Speaker [http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/events/paris/napoleoni] SenlisCouncil.net. Retrieved on 2007=11=12
# Forum Barcelona 2004 - "Universal Forum of Cultures Speaker Search" - Guest Speaker [http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/personajes/ficha.cfm?cod_personaje=3874] . Retrieved on 2007-11-12
# Buchanan, Michael "London bombs cost just hundreds"BBC online news article - Interview [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4576346.stm] BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-11-12
# Cowell, Alan "OFF THE SHELF; Terrorism's Cost in a Global Economy" - Review [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E4DC1339F93AA35752C1A9659C8B63] NewYorkTimes.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12
# The Guardian, Special Report Security and Terrorism "Rapid rise of the economy of terror"- Article [http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1076769,00.html] Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-11-12
# Dateline, "Loretta Napoleoni Interview" [http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/loretta_napoleoni_interview_130803] SBS.com.au. Retrieved on 2007-11-15
# Four Corners," Loretta Napoleoni Interview" [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1627342.htm] ABC.net.au. Retrieved on 2007-11-15

External links

* [http://www.lorettanapoleoni.org/ Loretta Napoleoni website]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/31/loretta_napoleoni_on_rogue_economics_capitalisms "Democracy Now!" Loretta Napoleoni interview (03/2008)]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/10/italian_writer_loretta_napoleoni_on_the "Democracy Now!" Loretta Napoleoni interview (11/2005)]