Antonio Villafranca is Vice President for Research at ISPI and Co-Head of the Europe and Global Governance Centre. He has coordinated several research projects funded by Italian Institutions (such as the “Osservatorio di Politica Internazionale” of the Italian Parliament) and by the EU Commission and Parliament (including Gr:een, Rastanews, Trade and Economic Relations with Asia, and Parlatrade). Since 2001, he has been teaching International Relations at the Bocconi University (Milan), where he was lecturer of European Economic Policy (2015-2018). He was also lecturer of ‘Structure of International Society’ at the IULM University. He has extensively published on global and European governance and on EU policies. He is an economist by training and received his MA from the Catholic University of Milan, where he also specialised in Economics and International Relations and was awarded the ‘Agostino Gemelli Prize. He is in charge of “NEXT-Empowering Future Leaders” and served as ISPI Coordinator of Think7 Italy (T7) in 2024 and of Think20 (T20) Italy in 2021.