Ilaria Poggiolini

Ilaria Poggiolini is a Professor of History of International Relations and History of European Integration at the University of Pavia (Italy). She is a member of the teaching staff of the Doctorate Program in History at the University of Pavia and of the Committee on Publication of Italian Diplomatic Documents (MAECI, Rome). She has previously served as Pro-Chancellor for International Relations (University of Pavia, 2013-2019), Visiting Fulbright Scholar (USA), NATO Fellow, Visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton (USA) and as an Associate of the Transatlantic Relations Programme at LSE IDEAS, LSE, London (UK). Her present research is focused on the UK’s accession to the EEC, British European policies and Ostpolitik in the 1970s and 1980s, and the UK’s international role in the decade leading to the end of the Cold War in Europe and to German reunification.