Dr Angela Romano is the President’s delegate for European projects at Fondazione Gramsci and member of its Scientific Council since 2018, and an international historian of the 20^th Century. Currently at the University of Bologna, she was previously at the University of Glasgow; Senior Research Fellow at the EUI, where she co-led the ERC-funded project PanEur1970s (2015–20); Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (at LSE, 2011–13); and Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI (2009–10).

Her research spans the Cold War, regional integration and cooperation processes, international economic relations, CSCE/OSCE and New Diplomatic History. She has published extensively on these subjects and has been invited to many conferences across Europe, Japan, Russia and the USA. Among her recent publications: ‘From ”Helsinki” and Development Aid to Multipolar Hard Ball‘, in M. Segers and S. van Hecke (eds.), The Cambridge History of the European Union  (Cambridge: CUP, in print, 2024), Vol. 1, pp. 393–417; ‘Parallelism, Asymmetry and Convergence in Cold War Europe’, Politique européenne 2022/2 (N° 76), pp. 146–172; and European Socialist Regimes’ Fateful Engagement with the West: National strategy in the long 1970s (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with F. Romero.