Marco Ansaldo is considered one of the most authoritative experts on Turkey, a country where he has been traveling, working and living in Istanbul for more than thirty years. He has covered politics and culture by writing hundreds of reports and a long series of interviews with the major protagonists, from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Nobel Prize winner for literature Orhan Pamuk. He edited entries for the Treccani Encyclopedia and the Utet Dictionary, and created the Italy-Turkey Intergovernmental Dialogue Forum. From Istanbul he also collaborated with La7 on the program Atlantide.

For seven years, from 2010 to 2016, he was Vatican correspondent for La Repubblica, where he covered the pontificates of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. He has covered two Conclaves, dozens of papal trips, the Corvi case in the Vatican and the Vatileaks 1 and 2 scandals. For more than ten years he has written about the Vatican for the prestigious German weekly Die Zeit.

Genoese, he is an international ambassador of U.C. Sampdoria and wrote three texts on football. He spent several years as a DJ and radio host and was a student of three State Conservatories; he also deals with music, currently collaborating with Rai Radio 3.

He is the curator of cultural events and seminars, and holds conferences in organizations and institutions on the various topics in which he is an expert. He has written about fifteen books and today lives between Istanbul, Genoa and Rome. He is arbitrator of the National Federation of the Italian Press.

He speaks fluent English and German