Dario Cristiani is the IAI/GMF Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington D.C. and Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, working on Italian foreign policy, Mediterranean issues and global politics.
Karim Mezran is a senior fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council and a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.