Seyda Canepa

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Currently the Italy correspondent for Turkish all-news broadcaster NTV, she has produced and hosted several programs on international politics, economics and energy for television. Today she collaborates with several Italian newspapers including Mediaset (TG5 and TG4), Radio Radicale, Class CNBC, Mondadori, La Repubblica and Linkiesta.

She has been a correspondent for NTV and CNBC-e in the Middle East and Asia, with bases in Dubai and Singapore, and has covered events all over the world, from the U.S. presidential elections to numerous international summits such as G7, G8, G20, DAVOS World Economic Forum, and Munich Security Conference, as well as serving as a war correspondent in Lebanon and during the Second Gulf War.

Graduated with honors in Political Sciences and International Relations at the University of Trieste, she is a professor in the master of journalism and multimedia communication at the Luiss University of Rome, member of the Scientific Committee of the EastWest European Institute thinktank, member of the IAI (International Affairs Institute) and alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the leading professional exchange program of the State Department of the United States, along with figures such as Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Romano Prodi, Mario Monti and Elisabetta Belloni.

Thanks to her background and broad and diverse range of professional experience, she has the ability to compare, analyze and interpret issues in the international scene, moving with ease from politics to news, and from custom to culture.

She is regularly invited to business conferences in Italy and abroad, and as a speaker and moderator at international conferences on the role of the media, the Middle East, geopolitical issues as well as cultural issues in society such as the status of women. She is also a frequent guest on television and radio programs for in-depth coverage of current events and international issues.

She speaks Italian, Turkish and English