Paola Tessari

Paola Tessari is Senior Researcher in the Security Programme at IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), where she leads EU-projects on non-conventional threats, with a focus on CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) and critical infrastructures protection. Since March 2022, she has also been involved in IAI’s activities in the framework of the EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC). In 2016-2018, she served as Advisor to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Directorate General for Political and Security Affairs.