Dr. Gregory Alegi

Gregory Alegi is a historian and journalist, with 35 years of experience in the aerospace, defense and security fields. He teaches Aerospace History at the Italian Air Force Academy (since 1998) and History of the Americas at LUISS University in Rome (since 2006). His extensive Italian and English writing includes La storia dell'Aeronautica Militare: la nascita (The History of the Italian Air Force: The Birth), winner of the ITAF Association Aerospace Book Prize in 2016. In 2015 he authored ...See more

Gregory Alegi is a historian and journalist, with 35 years of experience in the aerospace, defense and security fields. He teaches Aerospace History at the Italian Air Force Academy (since 1998) and History of the Americas at LUISS University in Rome (since 2006). His extensive Italian and English writing includes La storia dell'Aeronautica Militare: la nascita (The History of the Italian Air Force: The Birth), winner of the ITAF Association Aerospace Book Prize in 2016. In 2015 he authored "The Italian Experience: Pivotal and Underestimated," a chapter in Karl Muller's Precision and Purpose: Airpower in the Libyan Civil War. He sits on the Board of Advisors of the Fondazione ICSA, for which he has authored research papers on the Italian defence budget and the F-35 programme. As a journalist, he is the managing editor of the monthly Aeronautica and sits on the strategic committee of Airpress and the editorial board of The Aviation Historian. See less