Gennaro Carotenuto

Gennaro Carotenuto

Gennaro Carotenuto was born in Naples in 1966. He graduated at University of Pisa in History of International Relations and has a PhD from University of  Valencia in Contemporary History, he was a researcher at the University of Macerata, taught at Bocconi University in Milan, and is now associate professor in Contemporary History at the University of Campania.
Among other things, he has been a visiting scholar at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique latine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, and twice at the Calandra Institute at City University in New York.
In between he tried to follow his passions, which led him mostly to Latin America, where he lived mostly in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico. In 2017 in Rome, he testified as an expert witness in the “Condor Trial,” in which 24 Latin American military human rights violators were sentenced to life in prison.
A marathon runner, since 1997 he has collaborated as an author for Radio3 RAI. As a journalist he has worked mainly for Brecha (Montevideo, Uruguay) and has collaborated with La Stampa (Turin) and La Jornada (Mexico City), among others. Today he writes for Domani newspaper (Rome) and is often invited as an expert on international politics by SkyTG24, RAINews24, Radio1 RAI, Swiss Radio, and Vatican Radio.