Mr. Gabriele Cascone spent the first part of his career as an

officer in the Carabinieri Corps. This included two tours of duty in

Bosnia and Herzegovina with IFOR/SFOR in 1996 and 1997. In

1998, he joined the NATO International Staff, where he still

works, having served in three divisions (NATO Office of Security,

Political Affairs and Emerging Security Challenges). The focus of

his twenty-year career at NATO, has been mostly on the Western

Balkans and the Middle East and North Africa. Since July 2019

he is the head of the Counterterrorism section in the Emerging

Security Challenges Division. He holds a B.A. in Law  from the

University of Parma (Italy) and a M.A. in International Relations

from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).