Carlo Frappi is a lecturer in Contemporary Eurasian History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he sits on the Governing Board of the university’s Observatory on Politics and International Relations (OPRI) and on the Scientific Council of the Marco Polo Research Centre on Global Europe-Asia Connections (MaP). He is also an associate researcher with the ‘Energy Security’ programme and the ‘Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia’ observatory at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He holds a PhD in ‘European History’ and specialises in studies of the Near East and the Caucasus, with a particular focus on the dynamics of regional politics and energy policy in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions.
