Ileana Moroni was born in Athens and completed her undergraduate studies at the Turkish Studies Department of the University of Cyprus, Nicosia. She received an M.A. in History from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Panteion University in Athens, working on a thesis concerning the first Parliament of the Young Turk period.