Giulia Giordano is an Italian researcher and practitioner with extensive experience in the Middle East. She joined the creation of the Italian think tank ECCO at its early stage of conception and is now the head of international programes. She was previously the director of international programs at EcoPeace Middle East, a trilateral organization based in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. Formerly, she was a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow lecturer at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. She received her PhD in cooperation for peace and development from the University “Stranieri” of Perugia. She is an alumna of the Water Diplomacy Initiative, a joint programme by the MIT, Harvard, and Tufts University.