Antonio Fiori is the Korea Foundation Endowment Chair at the University of Bologna, in Italy, where he teaches "International Relations of Asia" and "Korean Politics". He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science - Comparative Analysis of Democracies from the University of Pavia (Italy) and has been a visiting fellow in the PRC (UIC, Zhuhai), US (East-West Center, Honolulu), and Korea (Seoul National University).