Serena Giusti is lecturer of International Relations at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies (ISPI) in Milan. She sits in the Advisory board of Women in International Security (WIIS) – Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence and a Master degree from the College of Europe (Natolin). She has extensively published on the EU’s external relations, Russia foreign policy, international security and disinformation, securitization of cultural heritage.