Emanuele Ottolenghi (born 1969) is an Italian political scientist and publicist. He is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC and a Leone Ginzburg Research Fellow in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the St. Antony's College Middle East Centre.
From 1993 to 1995, Ottolenghi was a junior research assistant at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. He earned a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna. He has taught at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, as well as the Middle East Centre of St. AntonyâÂÂs College, Oxford. He has been at Oxford University since 1998. From 2006 to 2010, he ran the Brussels-based AJC Transatlantic Institute.
Since 2010, Ottolenghi has been a member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP).
Ottolenghi's main research interests are Israeli domestic policy, constitutional and electoral law issues, as well as Italian foreign policy and the Middle East conflict. He has published articles on these topics in academic compilations. He has expertise on antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Italy, and terrorism.
He has written about Middle East issues for Commentary, The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, National Review Online, Newsday, the Jewish Chronicle, and the Middle East Quarterly, as well as European publications: Corriere del Ticino, il Foglio, Libero, Il Riformista, Liberal, Standpoint, L'UnitÃÂ, and Die Welt.
Ottolenghi stated that Iran would use institutions like Al Mustafa International University to build propaganda networks in Latin America. He warned these structures could support future terrorist activities. On 12 September 2023, in an interview for B'nai B'rith International's Lens on Latin America program, he addressed Iran's activities in the region, referring to Hezbollah's illicit networks, Iran's efforts to evade sanctions, and the strategic significance of Latin America for TehranâÂÂs global operations.
Emanuele Ottolenghi lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and two children.
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