Eleonora Ardemagni is Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI. She is an expert on Yemen, the Gulf monarchies, Arab armed forces and armed groups and a Teaching Assistant (“Regional Studies Middle East/“History of Islamic Asia”; “New Conflicts”) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations, ASERI (“Yemen: Drivers of conflict and security implications”) and former Gulf Analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation (2015-2020).