Biography

Francesco Giumelli is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) of the University of Groningen. He is the Director of the research theme Development, Security and Justice under the Agricola School for Sustainable Development at the University of Groningen. Francesco is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) and of the Central European Journal of International Security Studies (CEJISS). His research features in the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). He also served as Deputy Head of Department in Groningen from 2017 to 2023 and he co-coordinated the BA programme in International Relations and International Organization from 2014 to 2017.

Before moving to Groningen as Assistant Professor in 2013, he had been Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies of Metropolitan University Prague (MUP) from 2008 to 2013. For five years, Francesco taught courses on the European Union, Terrorism, International Organizations and International Relations Theories. In Prague, he was also a member of the Center for Security Studies (C4SS) at MUP.

He graduated in Political Science at the University of Bologna and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations from the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences (formerly the Italian Institute of Human Sciences) at the University of Florence. His doctoral thesis focused on international sanctions of international organizations and was shortlisted for the Jean Blondel Prize in 2010, which is awarded an annual PhD prize for the best thesis in politics (broadly conceived to include International Relations, Political Theory and Public Administration) nominated by a full member institution of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

In 2011, he published “Coercing, Constraining and Signalling. Explaining UN and EU Sanctions after the End of the Cold War” with the ECPR Press. In 2013, he published his second book “The Success of Sanctions: Lessons Learned from the EU Experience” with Routledge (previously Ashgate). He recently published his first monograph in Italian “Le sanzioni Internazionali” with Il Mulino.

Francesco was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute in 2010/2011 and Visiting Researcher at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

During his Ph.D studies, Francesco was a visiting student at MIT and later a visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute at Notre Dame University. Since 2007, Francesco is a member of the Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC), a group of more than forty scholars and policy practitioners from around the world coordinated by Prof. Thomas Biersteker and Hon. Sue Eckert on the effectiveness of UN targeted sanctions regimes and was a fellow in the European Foreign Policy and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS) financed by the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the VolkswagenStiftung foundation, working on a project on EU sanctions efficiency.