Prof. Federiga Bindi holds the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Wyoming. He first Jean Monnet Chair was at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she also was the founding director of the European Center of Excellence.
Prof. Bindi has been a visiting fellow in institutions, including the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Institute for Women Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington DC. Sciences Po in Paris, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, the University of Lisbon and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Dr. Bindi also held a number of policy appointments in government, including serving Senior Advisor to Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, and Fellow in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Sen. John Kerry’s chairmanship. She also advised several international organizations including the European Commission, the Council of Europe, UNIDO and OAS. In 2011-12, Prof. Bindi headed the international affairs department at the Italian National School of Administration, to then be appointed director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, where she stayed until 2014. As Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Prof. Bindi was tasked with modernizing and relaunching the Institute: in two years, she organized 304 programs for an overall attendance of 65,000.
Prof. Bindi holds a Ph.D. for the European University Institute and has published nine books including Europe and America: The End of Transatlantic Relations? (2019) The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe’s Role in the World (2010, 2012 and 2021); The Frontiers of Europe: A Transatlantic Problem? (2011); Italy and the EU (2011), Analyzing European Union Politics (2012).
