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Ignacio F. IBÁÑEZ FERRÁNDIZ
European Ideas Network
Va d e m e c u m o f t h e s p e a k e r s
Ignacio F. Ibáñez Ferrándiz works since 2006 as Manager of the Legislative Assistance and
Counter-Terrorism Financing Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the
Organization of the American States (OAS) in Washington, DC, USA. Under his responsibilities
is also the managing of Strategic-level Crisis Management Exercises. He has received OAS
Outstanding Performance Awards in 2009 and 2010.
Prior to this position, Mr. Ibáñez worked for the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations
Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC/TPB) in Vienna, Austria.
Mr. Ibáñez has traveled extensively throughout Latin-America and the Caribbean implementing projects, providing technical
and policy-level assistance and expertise on counter-terrorism issues to OAS Member States. He has participated as invited
expert in high-level visits to OAS Member States from the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive
Directorate (UN/CTED), as well as in evaluations conducted by the Financial Action Task Force for South America (FATF-
GAFISUD). Additionally, he has participated as speaker in multiple international fora such as the Asia Pacific Economic
(APEC) meetings, and the Committee of Experts on Terrorism of the Council of Europe (CoE/CODEXTER).
Mr. Ibáñez has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and a Master’s Degree in International Relations (Cum Laude, Valedictorian), specializing in
Terrorism and International Law. He has studied at the Universidad Complutense and the Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Madrid, Spain),
Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom). He has been invited to participate as guest
lecturer at the University of Maryland (Virginia, USA) and at the “XXXV Hemispheric Course on International Law” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
2008). Mr. Ibáñez has published a variety of works and articles about law, terrorism, and political science, including a thesis on bioterrorism.
Prof. Piero IGNAZI
Laurea in Political Science at the University of Bologna (1974). Final grade: 110 out of 110 magna cum laude.
Graduate student at the Department of Political and Social Science of the European University Institute, Florence
(1976-78)
Graduate student at the Department of Political Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA (1978-79)
Lecturer of Political Science (1984-98) at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Bologna
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics, University of Calabria (1998-2000)
Visiting Professor at the Universitè Tunis II (1995)
Visiting Professor at the Christ Church College, Oxford (1996)
Visiting Professor at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft of the Trier Universität (1996)
Visiting Professor at the ASERI (Alta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni Internazionali), Milano (1996- )
Visiting Professor at the Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, Paris
Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Lille (1999)
Visiting Professor at the Univeristé de Montréal (2002, 2003)
Visiting Professor at the Denver University
Swiss National Science Foundation - participation in evaluation committee
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica”
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “International Political Science Review”
Management of projects of national or international research
Challanges to European party systems (1996-98)
Organizational Change of the Italian Parties (2003-05)
Participation in research projects of national or international
European political Parties’ Middle-Level Elites (1978-84)
The development of the extreme right in Italy and France
European transnational federations and the parties of the UE candidate countries (2001-03)
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