Ugo Tramballi is ISPI Senior Advisor for the Institute\u2019s India Desk. A veteran journalist, he joined the Metropolitan section of \u201cIl Giornale\u201d in 1976. He served as the newspaper\u2019s Middle East correspondent in Beirut from 1983 to \u201987 with war correspondences from Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and extensive coverage in India and Pakistan. He was Moscow correspondent from 1987 to \u201991 and then Global Correspondent and columnist with the Italian Economic\u00a0 newspaper \u201cIl Sole 24 Ore\u201d. He covered the Middle East peace process, India\u2019s Economic reforms, South Africa transition to democracy, China rise and Hong Kong handover, the impact of globalization on World Politics, the World after 9\/11, Civil uprising in the Middle East, the financial crisis in the Western World and rise of populism. He is a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, IAI, Rome, as well as a World Economic Forum\u2019s Media Leader. Among his books: Inside India (1988), The Day Winter Is Over: Russia After Eltsin (1999), The Stones and the Olive Trees \u2013 A History of Palestine (2002), Israel \u2013 The Incomplete Dream, (2008). He regularly contributes to ISPI\u2019s annual report and has recently edited the ISPI reports India: the Modi Factor (2018), India\u2019s Global Challenge (2019) and Looking West: The Rise of Asia in the MENA Region (2020). On ISPI\u2019s website, he publishes a weekly blog on international affairs, \u201cSlow News\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31285,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n