Federico Prizzi

Federico Prizzi is an anthropologist at ItaliensPR and an expert in military Cultural Intelligence. He has carried out numerous field researches in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. He has worked for NATO, United Nations, the Italian Geographical Polar Institute, the Punt Institute (Puntland), and for several Italian and international universities. He is Subject Matter Expert of Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) and of Negotiation in Crisis Areas. Moreover, he has a Post Graduate Master in “Classical Archaeology Ancient History of Macedonia” at the International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki (Greece), he is specialized in Culture Property Protection and qualified Monuments Man by the US Army.

Author of many publications, his last book Cultural Intelligence ed etnografia di Guerra – Il ruolo dell’antropologia nello studio dell’Information Warfare di Al Shabaab (Cultural Intelligence and War Ethnography – The Role of Anthropology in the Study of Al Shabaab’s Information Warfare) has been translated into Turkish by Pankus Publishing house in 2023 and presented at the Ankara Book Fair in the same year.

Finally, he has a Graduate Degree in “Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnomusicology” at the University of Venice, a Graduate Degree in “Political Science” at the University of Trieste, a Graduate Degree in “Strategic Sciences” at the University of Turin, and a Bachelor in “Strategic Sciences” at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.