Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi is the executive director of the Transatlantic Institute. A political scientist by training, he came to Brussels in 2006 after having previously taught Israel Studies at the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bologna.
He is a frequent commentator on Iran, Israeli domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Europe’s Middle East policy. His columns have appeared on Newsday, Commentary, the
National Review Online, The Middle East Quarterly, the Jewish Chronicle, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror; European publications such as Die Welt, Il Corriere del Ticino, L’Unità, il Foglio and Libero. He writes regularly for the Italian dailies,
Il Riformista and
Liberal, has a regular column in the British monthly magazine,
Standpoint, and in Rome’s Jewish Monthly,
Shalom. He also blogs regularly at
Contentions, the Blog of
Commentary Magazine.
His areas of expertise are: Israeli politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East regional issues, Iran, terrorism and security issues, EU Middle East foreign policy, and Transatlantic Relations.
He is available to comment on these areas in Italian, English, Hebrew and French.
