Federico Borsari is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and a cohort of the NATO 2030 Global Fellowship.

At CEPA, he focuses on issues at the intersection between technology and international security, in particular unmanned systems and autonomy, and his portfolio also includes NATO and transatlantic defense and security. He has authored several analyses and publications on the use and security implications of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by both state and non-state actors and recently co-authored the first-ever report on drone warfare and the implications for NATO with the Center for European Policy Analysis.

He previously was a Pan European Fellow and then a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and, until October 2021, an analyst and project officer at the International Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan, where he also took part in the organization of the last three editions of the Mediterranean Dialogues Conference.

Federico holds a BA in History from the University of Modena and an MA in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Bologna. He also earned a second MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the Catholic University in Milan and has conducted fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan for a research project on the institutionalization and depoliticization of the Peshmarga.

He is a frequent commentator on defense and drone technology across national and international outlets and has intervened in several international conferences on defense technology and the use of drones.