Home / Lorena Stella Martini

Lorena Stella Martini

Senior Policy Advisor Foreign Policy

Italian English Arabic French Spanish

Leggi in italiano

Lorena Stella Martini is a Senior Policy Advisor Foreign Policy at ECCO. 

Prior to joining ECCO, Lorena worked at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), where she supported and coordinated the Rome office’s activities in research, advocacy and communication. She also collaborated with the Institute for International Policy Studies (ISPI) and gained professional experience with NGOs, both in Italy and abroad.

In recent years, Lorena has authored several publications in the field of international politics, with a focus on the MENA area and particular attention to  the link between geopolitics and foreign policy on the one hand, and transition, energy security and climate change on the other.  

Lorena holds a double Master’s degree in International Sciences and Analyse Comparée des Sociétés Méditerranées from the University of Turin and Université Polytechnique Mohammed 6 – UMP6 (Morocco), a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations(ASERI), and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistic Sciences for International Relations from the Catholic University of Milan.  

Articoli di Lorena Stella Martini

Pubblicazioni di Lorena Stella Martini

Energy in Africa: What relations between Italy and Mozambique?

January 2024
An Italy-Congo partnership based on the exploitation of fossil fuels is not the best investment for the country’s economy, as it fuels a vicious cycle of debt, poverty, inequality and corruption and lack of diversification. For Italy, such partnership is not only unprofitable in the face of a declining gas demand under all scenarios, but it would also collide with market new interests. Insisting on gas in the Italy-Congo relationship increasingly ties Italy’s foreign policy to gas policy, and away from its climate commitments.

Read Download

Energy in Africa: What relations between Italy and Mozambique?

October 2023
The revival of relations between Italy and African countries needs to be contextualized within a framework of renewed interest in the African continent. In this framework, the Meloni government is working on a new strategic project for Africa, known as “Mattei Plan”, which aims at establishing equal and mutually beneficial relations with African partners, in a “non-predatory” context. Against this backdrop, Mozambique represents an extremely relevant partner for Rome, drawing on solid relations at both a governmental and civil society level.

Read Download