PERSONAL INFORMATION Lia CAPONETTI 3, Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs, Building B31, Liège, 4000, Belgium +32 4 366 46 84 +32 4 83167344 lcaponetti@uliege.be Sex: Female Date of birth: 14/03/1989 Place of birth: Sydney (Australia) Nationality: Italy WORK EXPERIENCE From October 2013 until present: Websites: Main activities: Researcher/Assistant at the European Studies Unit (ESU), Department of Political Science of the University of Liège University of Liège, 3, Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs, Building B31, Liège, 4000, Belgium http://www.esu.ulg.ac.be/index.php?serv=49 Research activities in the fields of international strategic trade controls (focus on dual-use items) and related European Union policies and legislation (publication of articles, reports, dissemination of knowledge through technical notes, participation to projects). Participation to projects on strategic trade control systems: - Since 2017, public service contract for the Belgian Ministry of Economy and Energy for an analysis of a proposal for new legislation on the export of nuclear materials and equipment and dual-use products; - Since 2017, partial contribution to: Strengthening of the detection and border control capacities of the CBRN material in North Africa and Sahel) (CoE CBRN Project 55 2016/2019); - December 2016, Arms export control policy and legislation in Wallonia (Vlaams Vredeinstuut); - March 2016, A new methodology to review or elaborate a trade control system (https://atlas.mindmup.com/esuulg/trade_control_system/index.html). Drafting of technical notes and analysis, published on the Unit s website, such as: - Technical note on the EU Anti-Torture Regulation (EU) 2016/2134; - Trade controls note: Intrusive surveillance technology; - International Trade in Rough Diamonds: Kimberley Process update; - European Parliament s proposal for arms embargo against Saudi Arabia; - Sanctions against the Democratic People s Republic of Korea: updates; - EU dual-use Regulation RECAST: comparison between the Commission s proposal and the European Parliament amendments. Revision and update of the Vademecum dedicated to the European Union Dual-Use Items Export Control Regime and Vademecum dedicated to the European Union Anti-Torture Regulation. Weekly review of the Official Journal of the European Union and EU institutions official websites. Assistant s activities in the framework of the European Studies Unit s teaching activities (notably, first reading of students dissertations as well as preparation, updating and monitoring of parts of courses dealing mainly with the following topics: strategic trade control systems, EU legislation, policies and institutions). Since September 2016, officially in charge of the course Introduction to EU Politics (SPOL0091- A-a) Organisation of and participation to conferences and seminars. Page 1 / 5
From April 2014 until present: Website: Project Officer at CIRIEC (International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy) Sart-Tilman, 1, Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs, Building B33, Liège, 4000, Belgium http://www.ciriec.ulg.ac.be/en/ Main activities: Follow up of the following projects: - The future of public enterprise: mission, performance and governance - Major public enterprises: country analysis and policy trends - Social Economy Impact Assessment (Secoia) - Challenges and importance of public services in Belgium - The hybrid public-economy / social-economy organisations and the issues of the development of commons and global public goods - State-owned enterprises in the 21 st century Contribution to some research activities in the field of public economy (notably to the above mentioned project Challenges and importance of public services in Belgium) Supervision of CIRIEC publications (layout and contacts with authors). Organisation of international conferences and meetings in the filed of public and social economy (contact with participants, drafting of the agenda and other related documents and drafting of meetings minutes and reports). EDUCATION AND TRAINING From October 2011 to September 2013: Addresses: Level in national or international classification: Title of the dissertation: Principal subjects covered: From September 2008 to September 2011: Level in national or international classification: Double Master Degree in Political Sciences focus on European Politics and Euro- Mediterranean Relations University of Liège, Place du 20-Août, 7, 4000, Liège, Belgium and University of Catania, Piazza Università, 2, 95131, Catania, Italy Grande distinction - 110 cum laude/110 European Union s WMD Non-proliferation policy: the competence-sharing between EU institutions Global institutions and policies; Mediterranean politics; general history and history of North Africa; EU public policies; Human Rights (historical and theoretical perspective); Analysis of European policies; European migration policy; Compared political regimes; International relations theories; EU Area of freedom, security and justice policy; Population, globalization and post-socialist China: social and political dynamics Bachelor Degree in International Relations Studies on Africa and Asia University of Napoli L Orientale, via Partenope 10/A, 80121, Napoli (Italy) 110 cum laude/110
Title of the dissertation: Il sistema bancario cinese: la lenta scalata ai vertici del sistema finanziario internazionale (The Chinese Banking System: the slow climbing to the international financial system) Principal subjects covered: Political Science; International Relations; Sociology; Contemporary history; Statistics; Chinese Language and Culture (level I, II and III); (Italian) Public and Constitutional law; International law; European law; Political Economy; Developmental Economy; History and institutions of China; Anthropology PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue: Italian Other language(s): UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING English French Spanish Chinese Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production C1 C1 C1 C1 C1 C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 Computer skills: Good command of Microsoft Office tools, WordlPress, Mac OS, Windows Driving licence: Driving licence type B Page 3 / 5
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLICATIONS European Union s WMD Non-proliferation policy: the competence-sharing between EU institutions, in ReSHAPE Online Papers Series, No. 7/14 February 2014, University of Catania. Available at: http://www.fscpo.unict.it/europa/jmap/repaper7.pdf. From models to a model? in Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile (eds.), Modelling Dual-Use Trade Control Systems, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Non-Proliferation and Security, Vol. 10, 2014. Italy sanctions system related to dual-use trade violations in Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Quentin Michel, Sylvain Paile (eds.), Controlling the Trade of Strategic Goods: sanctions and penalties, European Studies Unit (University of Liège), 2016, pp. 236 249, ISBN: 978-2- 9601919-0-5. Mass Surveillance Technology: Trading Trojan Horses?, Strategic Trade Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2016, pp. 53 71, E-ISSN: 2406-5269. Lia Caponetti et Barbara Sak, CIRIEC Working Paper N 2016/06, Comment définir le service public à travers ses différentes facettes, missions et principes?, April 2016. CIRIEC Working Paper N 2016/10, Le cadre règlementaire européen en matière de services publics: législation, financement et contraintes, April 2016. Lia Caponetti, Vaia Demertzis and Barbara Sak, CIRIEC Working Paper N 2016/12, Services publics et missions de service public en Belgique Etat des lieux, April 2016. Quentin Michel and Lia Caponetti, Introduction to International Strategic Trade Control Regime, European Studies Unit, University of Liège, 2017. Looking for the correlation between EU international trade policy and its dual-use export controls outreach programme: the WMD clause coherence in Incentives of Europe for Non- Proliferation Outreach Activities, Quentin Michel and Wolfgang Lehofer, European Studies Unit, University of Liège, December 2017. SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Fourth Edition of the Chaudfontaine Group, Universal trade control regime versus regional export control model(s). Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 8-10 December 2013. Fifth meeting of the Chaudfontaine Group, Clarifying concepts and parameters of essential elements of a trade control system: opportunities for Africa. Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 28-30 September 2014. Third edition of the ULg UCT twin seminar, Increasing of regionalism: will it change EU decisionmaking process? University of Liège, Belgium, 9-10 March 2015. Sixth meeting of the Chaudfontaine Group, Sensitive Trade Control and Sanctions: implementing embargoes and penalties in case of violations. Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 8-10 November 2015. Workshop: SOEs Reform: Lessons learnt from the crisis and ways forward. European Commission, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs, Charlemagne Building, Brussels, Belgium, 24 November 2015. (With the support of the European Commission) Seventh Edition of the Chaudfontaine Group, Incentives of non-proliferation outreach activities: actors and rationale, Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 8-10 January 2017.
Workshop on Brexit and Strategic Trade Control: Consequences and Ways Forward, Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 23-25 April 2017. International conference of CIRIEC, The Future of Public Enterprises: Role and governance in the implementation of innovative strategic policies and economic development. Paris, France, 25 February 2015. 31 st CIRIEC International Congress, Public policies and the social and democratic issues of globalization: What projects to be developed by the public, social and cooperative Economy?, Reims (France) 21 22 23 September 2016. Eight Meeting of the Chaudfontaine Group, Do academic activities contribute to WMD proliferation?, Chhaudfontaine, Belgium, 8-10 April 2018. Seminar on Strategic Trade Controls in Southeast Asia, Pacific Forum, Hanoi, Vietnam, 24-26 July 2018. Page 5 / 5