Francesco Mancini
Deputy Director of Studies
mancini@ipinst.org
As Deputy Director of Studies at IPI, Francesco Mancini serves as principal liason between the program staff and the office of the Senior Vice President Edward C. Luck and the President Terje Rod-Larsen. He helps to connect the different program agendas with institutional priorities. He also heads the larger IPI program “Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change” and directs IPI work on peace operations. When he joined IPI in 2004, he served in the Security-Development Nexus program, covering in particular security sector reform.
Francesco is also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and held the same position for two years at New York University. Since 2004, he has been teaching a graduate-level seminar on conflict assessment.
Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he co-managed the Worldwide Security Initiative, a program designed to enhance international cooperation in addressing new security threats, particularly transnational terrorism.
From 1996 to 2001, Francesco was a senior management consultant at Charles Riley Consultants International in Paris, where he focused on business strategy and change management, managing multi-million dollar reforms in major public sector companies in France, Italy, and Morocco.
Francesco earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where he studied International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution. While at Columbia, he was awarded a fellowship within the Satzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. In 2002, he researched the peace negotiations in Cyprus at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- “The Company We Keep: Private Contractors in Jamaica,” Civil Wars, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 231-250, and in Gordon Peake, Eric Scheye and Alice Hills (eds.), Managing Insecurity: Field Experiences of Security Sector Reform (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)
- Encyclopedia of United States National Security (London: SAGE Publications, 2006; Richard Samuels, ed.), contributions including Osama Bin Laden; Bush Doctrine; Middle East Conflicts; Preemptive War Doctrine; Preventive War; UN Peacekeeping
- “Counting What Counts: Ten Steps Toward Increasing the Relevance of Empirical Research in the UN System,” Meeting Note (New York: International Peace Academy, February 2006; with Reyko Huang).
- “Maritime Power in A Flat World,” Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2005)
- In Good Company? The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform, Policy Paper (London and New York: Demos and International Peace Academy, 2005)