Dr. Paolo Tripodi is the Donald Bren Chair of Ethics and Leadership at the Marine Corps University. He served as an Ethics Fellow at the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, and as the 2002 Jerome E. Levy Visiting Fellow at the Naval War College. He held the José Ignacio Zenteno Chair of Defense Studies at the Catholic University of Chile, Political Science Institute where he directed the Defense Studies Program. Funded by the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Program established Defense Studies as a relevant subject in higher education. Dozen of students, many of whom from the Ministry of Defense, the Chilean Army and Air Force have graduated.
From 1997 to 1999 Dr. Tripodi was a senior lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University where he taught courses in international security and security studies. He was a resident fellow at the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy & the Environment where he researched the implications of nuclear proliferation. He served as a First Lieutenant with the Carabinieri, Italian Military Policy. From 1990 to 1991 he served with the 3rd Battalion Lombardia in Milan and from 1991 to 1993 he was at the Carabinieri Headquarters in Rome. He received his commission after attending the School of Infantry and Cavalry in Cesano and the Carabinieri Officers School in Rome.
Dr. Tripodi holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Nottingham-Trent University and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the London Centre of International Relations, University of Kent. He has a Master in Media Studies from the LUISS (Free University of International Social Studies) School of Journalism, in Rome and a BA in Political Science from Messina University.
Among Dr. Tripodis publications is The Colonial Legacy in Somalia. Rome and Mogadishu from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope, London, Macmillan, 1999. He has also written articles for Low Intensity Conflicts and Law Enforcement, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, International Relations, Security Dialogue, International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Review, The African Review of Foreign Policy, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad, Informazioni della Difesa, and Rivista Militare.