Roberto Menotti is Editor-in-Chief of Aspenia online, Deputy Editor of Aspenia, and Senior Advisor for International Activities at Aspen Institute Italia in Rome. He has been a member of the Scientific Board of the NATO Defence College Foundation since 2018 and of the Advisory Council of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University since 2024.
Before joining Aspen Institute Italia in 2002, he was Deputy Director of the Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI). He served as a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Defence’s Centro Studi Militari di Studi Strategici from 2003 to 2007, and as Press Officer to Italy’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2013–2014.
He was Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Department at Università Internazionale di Roma (UNINT) from 2019 to 2021, and has taught at LUISS University, John Cabot University, and La Sapienza, Rome University. He has also lectured at the NATO Defence College in Rome.
Menotti holds a degree in Political Science from LUISS University and an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California. He has published widely in leading international journals and edited volumes, and is the author of four books on international affairs and security . He was an op-ed commentator for Il Messaggero (2011–2014) and Il Mattino (2014–2015), and was awarded the Premio Giornalistico Amerigo in 2013.