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Name
  
Loretta Napoleoni


Role
  
Journalist

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Website
  
http://lorettanapoleoni.net

Education
  
Johns Hopkins University, London School of Economics and Political Science

Books
  
Rogue Economics, Maonomics: Why Chinese, Terror Incorporated: Tracing th, Insurgent Iraq, Terrorism and the Economy

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Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism and connected topics, both finance- and security-related.

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Life and career

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Napoleoni was born and raised in Rome, Italy. In the mid 1970s, she became an active feminist and marxist. She was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has a M.Phil. in Terrorism Studies from the University of East London, and a Master's in International Relations from SAIS.

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As an economist Napoleoni has worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the United States. In the early 1980s she worked at the National Bank of Hungary on the convertibility of the Hungarian forint that became the blueprint for the convertibility of the ruble a decade later.

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She lectured on the financing of terrorism at Cambridge Judge Business School. Napoleoni advises several governments on counter-terrorism. As chairman of the counter terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combatting the financing of terror networks.

Personal life

Napoleoni lives in London, England, and Whitefish, Montana, with her husband and children.

Appointments

She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación Ideas para el Progreso, the think tank of Spain's Socialist Party, and she is a partner with Oxfam Italia. From 2007 to 2010 she was director of Italy's first investigative journalism course, and presented her work at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.

Publications

Napoleoni's writing has been including Italian newspapers such as il Caffe, La Repubblica, and Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the Spanish newspaper El Pais..

Her best-selling book Terror Incorporated was translated into 12 languages. Her novel Dossier Baghdad is a financial thriller set during the Persian Gulf War. She has also published a nonfiction book about Iraq, Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation, and several other books, including 2008's Rogue Economics.

The Italian edition of her book Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do won the 2010 Book of the Year Prize from the Italian Association for Economics as well as the 2011 Singapore Critics Choice Best Nonfiction on Economics Prize.Maonomics was published in 10 countries and in Italy by RCS MediaGroup.

Napoleoni also writes articles for newspapers and journals including Le Monde, The Guardian, Il Venerdi di Repubblica, l'Espresso, l'Unità, and Wired Italia. In one such article, co-written with Claudia Segre and originally published in L'Osservatore Romano under the title Alternative Credit Mechanisms with a Basic Code of Ethics: From Islamic Proposals and Ideas to the West in Crisis, she recommends that the Vatican consider Sharia-compliant loans, and writes that ”in Islamic finance ... there is no speculation." Source: ZDFinfo (German TV channel; YouTube)

Works

  • — (2005). Terror Incorporated : Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 9781583226735. 
  • — (2005). Insurgent Iraq : Al Zarqawi and the New Generation (1. North American ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583227053. 
  • — (2008). Rogue Economics : Capitalism's New Reality (A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583228241. 
  • — (2010). Terrorism and the Economy : How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World (1st English language ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583228951. 
  • — (2011). 10 Years that Shook the World a Timeline of Events from 2001 (Seven stories press 1st ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 9781609804121. 
  • — (2011). Maonomics : Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do. Translated by Stephen Twilley; foreword by Greg Palast. Crawley, W.A.: UWA Publishing. ISBN 9781742582924. 
  • — (2011). The Contagion (Il Contagio). Italy,Germany,Spain: Rizzoli. 
  • — (2013). Democracy For Sale (Democrazia Vendesi). Italy,Spain. 
  • — (2014). The Islamist Phoenix: Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 9781609806286. 
  • — (2016). Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business (1st U.S. ed.). Penguin USA. ISBN 9781609807085. 
  • — (2017). ISIS: The Terror Nation (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 9781609807252. 

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