Dr. Iole Fontana is post-doc research fellow at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Catania. She has a PhD in Institutions, Politics and Policies from IMT- Institute of Advanced Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics in London and at the University Hassan II in Casablanca. She has also served as a research intern for the Section of Political and Cultural Cooperation of the European Union Delegation in Tunis. Her first monography has recently been published by Routledge. She has an expertise on EU politics, EU-Mediterranean relations and is currently working on the role of organized criminal groups in the migrants’ trafficking in the Mediterranean, EU migration and asylum policy. In June-July 2019, she was one of the 18 scholars selected to attend the SUSI program of the US State Department on US Foreign Policy.
