The Director

Marco Pertile has been appointed to serve as Director of the School of International Studies since October 2026.

Pertile is Professor at the Faculty of Law and the School of International Studies at the University of Trento. Since 2018, he has also taught at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po.

Throughout his career, he has held research and teaching positions at leading international institutions, including the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Charles University in Prague, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. He served as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and held a Marie Curie Fellowship for a project examining the relationship between armed conflict and natural resources. He has also participated in sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in New York.

His research focuses primarily on the law of armed conflict, human rights protection, environmental protection, investment law and natural resources. He has authored approximately 100 publications and has extensive experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students, including more than 150 degree theses, as well as doctoral candidates and researchers.

He is a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo and of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Red Cross. He is a co-editor of the journal Questions of International Law and edits italyspractice.info, a website devoted to Italian diplomatic and parliamentary practice. He also serves as a peer reviewer for numerous Italian and international academic journals.