Julian Campisi

Julian Campisi is Assistant Professor of Political Science (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto – Scarborough. He completed his PhD in Political Science at York University in 2019. His research interests are predominantly in the field of international political economy and comparative politics, specifically the methodologies that underpin political risk assessments in the private and public realms, with specific interest in the Italian case. Julian was a 2022 Associate Fellow at JHU SAIS Bologna, a 2021 MITACS Canadian Science Policy Fellow with the Department of National Defence, and a recent Science & Technology Fellow with the Inter-American Institute on global change research. In 2015-2016 he was a visiting scholar at LUISS University in Rome; he completed his MA at UBC Vancouver in European Studies, and his BA at the University of Ottawa in International Studies. Julian has worked and studied in China, Australia, and Italy over the years in a variety of industries. Currently, he teaches courses on Canadian politics, IPE, public policy, IR, and multiculturalism, in addition to providing consulting advice on geopolitical risks. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Political Risk (2025).