Matteo Legrenzi is Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He holds a D.Phil. in International Relations and a M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St. Antony's College, Oxford. He served as President of the Italian Association for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) and is a member of International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle East Studies (WOCMES) and of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) Council. He helped to establish and served as inaugural coordinator of the undergraduate program in Philosophy, International Studies and Economics (PISE) and its Double Degree with the University of Groningen. He was founding director of the Master in Strategic Studies and International security (SSSI) and is co-coordinator of the International Studies Team of the Research for Global Challenges university-wide initiative. He is member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and in Oxford he is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Academic Visitor at St Antony's College. He served as Rector's Delegate for the Middle East and he is Director of the Center for Strategic Studies and International Politics (CeSSPI). He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo. He published numerous articles and book chapters on the Arab monarchies and the international relations of the Gulf as well as writing a column on Middle East politics for the Italian journal "Il Mulino". He wrote two monographs "The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East" for I.B. Tauris and "Cognitive Analysis of Decisionmaking: The Case of Israel in October 1973 Conflict" for Vita e Pensiero (Milan Catholic University Press). He also edited three volumes "Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalisation in the Middle East" and "Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions" for Ashgate Publishers and "Gulf Security: Legacies of the Past, Prospects for the future" for Routledge. Before returning to Venice, his hometown, he taught in Oxford, Ottawa and Seoul winning the Capital Educators' Award in 2009 in Canada. He currently supervises three Marie Curie Global Individual Fellowships. He deals with international relations and comparative government of the Middle East, in particular the political economy, regionalism and security of the Arab monarchies of the Gulf.

International Relations/Affairs

Gulf Studies

Public Policy

Security Studies

All Middle East

Gulf

UAE

Gulf Coop Council

Intl Rltns Of ME

Regionalism In ME

Arabic (intermediate)

French (advanced)

Italian (native)

Latin (intermediate)

Spanish (intermediate)