Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD and an expert at FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) focused on Hezbollah’s Latin America illicit threat networks and Iran’s history of sanctions evasion. Prior to joining FDD, Dr. Ottolenghi headed the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels and taught Israel Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He obtained his PhD in political theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, preceded by undergraduate studies in political science at the University of Bologna. He is author of “The Pasdaran: Inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”, “Iran: The Looming Crisis”, and “Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb”.