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Mattia Serra is an Associate Research Fellow at ISPI and a PhD Candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Until 2024, he was a resident Junior Research Fellow at ISPI’s MENA Centre, where he also contributed to developing the agenda of the “MED–Mediterranean Dialogues,” the Institute’s flagship annual conference, co-organized with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mattia holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Bologna and a Research Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University. His research examines state-society relations in the Middle East, combining historiographical inquiry with policy-oriented analysis.
To encourage and incentivize long-overdue structural reforms, the European Union and the broader international community should adopt a more proactive, hands-on approach to Lebanon. The current context calls for an approach that balances assistance delivery with active support to the Lebanese government in its quest to reform and rebuild the state.
