Adm Cesare Ciocca is a retired Italian Navy Officer, graduated in the Naval Academy in Livorno from 1971 to 1975.
He was on board on several military ships as artillery and missile officer, executive officer and commanding officer. He served also in the Navy General Staff, and since 1994 he was involved in the creation of the Italian Joint Senior Staff College as head curriculum planning and development, then appointed in 2007 as Joint Education Coordinator at the Centre for Higher Defence Studies.
“Founding father” of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), in 2008 he was elected for five years Chairperson of its Executive Academic Board and Chairperson of the Implementation Group for the “Military Erasmus”. After his retirement in June 2012, he collaborated with the Military Centre for Strategic Studies, the Centre for Defence Innovation of the Italian Joint General Staff, and the European Union Military Staff.
Currently he is professor at the Niccolò Cusano on-line University in Rome for postgraduate masters on Defence Policy and Military History, and delivers lectures on the National Defence and EU Common Security and Defence Policy. He is also member of the Italian Atlantic Committee, the Istituto Studi Ricerche Informazioni Difesa, and of the Association Régionale Dauphiné-Savoie of the French Higher National Defence Studies Institute.