Marco Lombardi, director of ITSTIME (Italian Team for Security,

Terroristic Issues & managing Emergencies – www.itstime.it)

research center, is full professor at the Catholic University of Sacred

Heart, where he teaches Crisis management and risk

communication, Mass Communication theory, Sociology,

Intelligence and counter terrorism, Security policies. He is the

director the Department of Sociology and of the School of

Journalism, member of the scientific board of the School of

Doctorate and of the master in Cultural Diplomacy. He managed

several EU founded research projects mainly focused on terrorism,

security and crisis management. He co-operates with different

institutional agencies involved on security both at national and

international level. He is member of the Governmental Commission

on Counter Radicalization and of the Strategic Policy Committee of

the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

He is member of the board of “JD – Journal for Deradicalization”

(www.journal-derad.com), “Journal of Mediterranean and Balkan Intelligence – JMBI” and “Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società – STS” (www.sicurezzaterrorismosocieta.it).