Loretta Napoleoni is an economist and expert on the financing of terrorism. She advises several governments on counter-terrorism and as Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks. She was a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics. As an economist, she worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the US. Ms. Napoleoni is also a columnist and has worked as a foreign correspondent for several Italian financial papers. Her work appears regularly in many journals and publications, including several European newspapers. She was among the few people to interview the Red Brigades in Italy after three decades of silence.