Giovanni Carbone is Head of the ISPI Africa Programme and Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His research focus is the comparative study of politics, geopolitics and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular regard to political institutions. He was previously a Research Associate at the Crisis States Programme of the London School of Economics and the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC). He is currently completing a book on Political Leadership in Africa: A Comparative Study of Sub-Saharan Leaders (with Alessandro Pellegata, forthcoming in early 2019).