Federica Saini Fasanotti
Dr. Federica Saini Fasanotti is a nonresident Fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, of the Foreign Policy program at The Brookings Institution. She is also a Senior Associate of ISPI in Milan. She is a historian specialized in counterinsurgency and asymmetric wars. Her fieldwork and research have covered, among others, Afghanistan, Libya, and the Horn of Africa. She has been a consultant on Libya for James Mattis, former US Secretary of Defense and for Terna Group, the first grid operator for electricity transmission in Europe. In September 2016 she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs about terrorism in Libya.