Staff - Middle East Directions

LUIGI NARBONE

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Director

Luigi Narbone is Director of the Middle East Directions Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. Previously, he was Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to Saudi Arabia, and non-resident Ambassador to Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait. He held positions in the EEAS; the DG for External Relations; the EC Delegations in the Russian Federation, Chile, and Turkey; the UN and the UNDP. A graduate of the University of Bologna and John Hopkins University SAIS, he has been a NATO Fellow and Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Chile in Santiago.

OLIVIER ROY

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Scientific Advisor

Email: Olivier.Roy@EUI.eu

Olivier Roy is Senior Scientific Consultant for the Middle East Direction Programme. Previously he has been senior researcher at the French CNRS and Professor at the EHESS (Paris). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94) and was a Consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). Since 2011 he has headed the ERC funded project “ReligioWest”. His research interests include Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. He is presently working on “Islamic norms in the public sphere”, conversions and apostasy, and comparative religions.

VIRGINIE COLLOMBIER

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Research Coordinator

Email: Virginie.Collombier@EUI.eu

Virginie Collombier is the research coordinator of the Programme. She has been a Research Fellow at the European University Institute since September 2013. She has been the main leader and coordinator of a research initiative on social and political change in post-Qaddafi Libya developed in partnership with the Norwegian Peace-building Resource Center (NOREF). She has also coordinated NOREF’s support to the Libyan Social Dialogue initiative, a process of national dialogue and reconciliation initiated by Libyan activists and community leaders from across the country.