Maurizio Molinari, born in Rome in 1964, is the columnist of La Repubblica on Global Affairs. He was Editor in chief of La Repubblica since April 2020 to October 2024, and is one of the most well-known and more respected journalist, in Italy and abroad.
Maurizio Molinari started as a journalist in 1984 at La Voce Repubblicana, worked on Foreign and Security Affairs in different newspapers and tv and in 1997 arrived at La Stampa as diplomatic correspondent, and then was posted in Brussels, New York and Jerusalem-Ramallah. He became editor in chief of La Stampa in 2016 and left in 2020 to take the same position at La Repubblica.
Both at La Stampa and La Repubblica he led the digital transition of the editorial system, reorganizing the newsroom and achieving important results in digital reading and the use of the social network as a new tool for quality journalism.
Since 1989 he covered the conflicts in the Balkans, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Among the leaders he interviewed there are the US presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Secretaries of State Mike Pompeo, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, colonel Qaddafi, Saudi king Abdallah, Israeli prime ministers Netanyahu and Peres, Israeli president Rivlin, PLO chairman Arafat, Palestinian president Abbas, the Pkk commander Ocalan, the Iraqi Kurdish president Barazani and the Turkish President Erdogan.
He has published in Italy 23 books on Foreign Policy, including “The Caliphate of Terror“ (2015) and “Jihad“ (2015). His last book is “The New War Against Democracy” (2024), on how autocracies want to overturn the international order. It was preceded by “Contented Mediterranean” on the competition among US, China and Russia.
Maurizio Molinari studied at the Manchester College and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before taking his degrees in Foreign Policy and History at the University of Rome.
