Federico Prizzi is an anthropologist at ItaliensPR and an expert in military Cultural Intelligence. He has carried out numerous field researches in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. He has worked for NATO, United Nations, the Italian Geographical Polar Institute, the Punt Institute (Puntland), and for several Italian and international universities. He is Subject Matter Expert of Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) and of Negotiation in Crisis Areas. Moreover, he has a Post Graduate Master in “Classical Archaeology Ancient History of Macedonia” at the International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki (Greece), he is specialized in Culture Property Protection and qualified Monuments Man by the US Army.
Author of many publications, his last book Cultural Intelligence ed etnografia di Guerra – Il ruolo dell’antropologia nello studio dell’Information Warfare di Al Shabaab (Cultural Intelligence and War Ethnography – The Role of Anthropology in the Study of Al Shabaab’s Information Warfare) has been translated into Turkish by Pankus Publishing house in 2023 and presented at the Ankara Book Fair in the same year.
Finally, he has a Graduate Degree in “Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnomusicology” at the University of Venice, a Graduate Degree in “Political Science” at the University of Trieste, a Graduate Degree in “Strategic Sciences” at the University of Turin, and a Bachelor in “Strategic Sciences” at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Lecturer on October 21st on “Cultural Intelligence and Negotiation in Crisis Environments – How to Study the Counterpart” as part of the History of International Relations program at the La Sapienza University of Rome. The lecture will be held online.
Lecturer on October 23rd on “Cultural Intelligence and Conflict Ethnography” as part of the conference series on “Anthropology and Security Studies” organized by the Department of Sociology at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine). The lecture will be held online.
Lecturer on December 11th 2025 on “The Rearm in the Third Pole through Weaponizing Culture – Snapshots from the Himalayan Region” as part of the conference on “9th International Conference on Terrorism and Security” organized by the Istanbul Beykent University (Türkiye). The lecture will be held in presence.
