Francesca Zilio

Francesca Zilio is research fellow at Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue. She studied International and Diplomatic Relations at the University of Trieste and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She then obtained a binational PhD in History of International Relations from Sapienza University of Rome and Freie Universität Berlin.

Her research interests concern in particular the foreign policy of Italy and the Federal Republic after the Second World War, Italian-German political and cultural relations, the Cold War and the institutional promotion of the national image of states.