Loretta Napoleoni is the bestselling author of 'Rogue
Economics, Terror Incorporated and Insurgent
Iraq'.
She is an expert on terrorist financing and money laundering, and advises several governments and international organizations on these issues. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Napoleoni brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.
Loretta Napoleoni is among the few economists who predicted the credit crunch and the recession, and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current crisis. She is also a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky and the BBC, and is a columnist and writes about terrorism, money laundering and the economy for several European national papers including El Pais, The Guardian and Le Monde.
In the 1990s she was among the first journalists to interview the Red Brigades, the Italian Marxist armed group. She subsequently spent three years interviewing members of other terrorist organizations. In 2003 she interviewed followers of al Zarqawi in both Europe and in the Middle East.
She is currently Professor of Economics and teaches at the Judge Business School, Cambridge.
Napoleoni has written two novels and several non-fiction books, including Modern Jihad: tracing the dollars behind the terror networks (Pluto Press, London, 2003); Terror Inc. (Penguin, London, 2004); Insurgent Iraq (Seven Stories Press, New York 2005); Rogue Economics (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008) Terror and the Economy (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2010). The Italian edition of Maonomics won the prestigious Premio dell'Associazione per il Progresso Economico.
She is an expert on terrorist financing and money laundering, and advises several governments and international organizations on these issues. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Napoleoni brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.
Loretta Napoleoni is among the few economists who predicted the credit crunch and the recession, and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current crisis. She is also a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky and the BBC, and is a columnist and writes about terrorism, money laundering and the economy for several European national papers including El Pais, The Guardian and Le Monde.
In the 1990s she was among the first journalists to interview the Red Brigades, the Italian Marxist armed group. She subsequently spent three years interviewing members of other terrorist organizations. In 2003 she interviewed followers of al Zarqawi in both Europe and in the Middle East.
She is currently Professor of Economics and teaches at the Judge Business School, Cambridge.
Napoleoni has written two novels and several non-fiction books, including Modern Jihad: tracing the dollars behind the terror networks (Pluto Press, London, 2003); Terror Inc. (Penguin, London, 2004); Insurgent Iraq (Seven Stories Press, New York 2005); Rogue Economics (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008) Terror and the Economy (Seven Stories Press, New York, 2010). The Italian edition of Maonomics won the prestigious Premio dell'Associazione per il Progresso Economico.
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