Giovanna Maletta is a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme. From January 2023 to August 2024, she was Acting Director of the same programme. In 2017, she joined SIPRI as an EU Non-Proliferation Consortium Intern and has been working there since then. Her research work at SIPRI includes issues related to the implementation of national, multilateral and international export-control standards and instruments, with a particular focus on the EU framework for strategic trade controls and the Arms Trade Treaty. She is currently working on research projects examining the role of export controls in addressing processes of militarisation of civilian technologies and developments in China’s export-control system.