Eleonora Ardemagni is an expert on Yemen and the Gulf monarchies, and works also on Arab armed forces and armed groups. She is an ISPI Senior Associate Research Fellow, a Teaching Assistant (“Regional Studies Middle East/“History of Islamic Asia”; “New Conflicts”) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations, ASERI (“Yemen: Drivers of conflict and security implications”). She is a Middle East Institute Affiliate. Former Gulf Analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation (2015-2020). Columnist on Middle East politics since 2016 for the Italian newspaper Avvenire.