Economist, syndicated journalist and bestselling author of Terror, Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. Her latest book is called Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality.

She is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism. She is senior partner of G Risk, a London based risk agency and nowadays, Napoleoni is working as investigator at London School of Economics.

According to Napoleoni, Terrorism is an economical reality, a big transnational business. She will explain how the new terrorism born in the beginning of the 90s has globalized, during all the regulatory process of the international markets. In her books, she has studied the power of Al Qaeda as a transnational organization, making money in different countries and using Internet to spread their influence.

Who is doing business with terrorism? How the new economy is financing this terrorism? How technology has given new powers to these movements? Napoleoni will answer all that at the iFest08.

Loretta is the author of “Insurgent Iraq” (Seven Stories Press, 2005), “Terror Incorporated” (Penguin Books, 2004) and “Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality” (Hardcover, 2007).

• http://www.lorettanapoleoni.org
• http://www.lorettanapoleoni.org/economia_canalla