Riccardo Pravettoni is a journalist, geographer, and cartographer, and serves as Deputy Head of the Cartographic Section at Le Monde, where he coordinates the newspaper’s cartographic and infographic production, focusing primarily on international politics. In the past, he was Head of Cartography at Rhipto – Norwegian Center for Global Analyses and UNEP/GRID, two Norwegian centers affiliated with the United Nations that investigate the relationship between natural resources, environmental crimes, conflicts and terrorism, and organized crime in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Co-author of the 2014 IPCC Climate Report, he has published numerous studies for the United Nations and other international organizations, using maps as a key communication tool to support decision-making within the UN Security Council, with which he frequently collaborates. His maps and some of his reportages have appeared in various international media, including The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, El País, L’Obs, Il Post, La Stampa, and Internazionale. In Italy, he published The Geopolitical Atlas of Water with Hoepli in 2019.