Maria Fantappie is currently Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group (ICG) leading research and advocacy on Iraq and Syria, a position she has held for four years. Prior joining ICG, Maria was a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut (2011-2012). She completed her PhD in Public Policy at King’s College London, and in 2009 earned an MA and MPhil with distinction from Sciences Po’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies. She has taught at the American University of Iraq in Suleimani (2014), Sciences Po (2010) and the University of Rouen (2010).

For more information, read these article of Maria Luisa Fantappie:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-09-19/politics-kurdish-independence-referendum

https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/gulf-and-arabian-peninsula/iraq/how-mitigate-risks-iraqi-kurdistans-referendum