Professional Experience:
- Senior Researcher and Manager, Trilateral Research – London (Jan 2018 – present)
• Manager – Regulatory
Regulatory advice & crisis management (incidents and breaches). Co-management of the team, including: team coordination; client management; stakeholder engagement; service-delivery coordination, incl. definition and delivery of advice, internal investigations, training, and liaison with Regulatory Authorities.
Selected clients (Team Lead):
• European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam – Outsourced Regulatory Advice since January 2019.
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge – Group Data Protection Officer since May 2018.
• Vir Biotechnology, San Francisco – EU Regulatory advice & Data Protection Officer since July 2020.
• Senior Researcher – Policy and Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Research, think tank, conferences, meetings, etc. Focus: machine learning in law enforcement, risk analysis in the conflict and crisis sector, anti-money laundering law, new technologies, and data protection.
Selected Projects (EU Horizon2020, EU Action Grants, InnovateUK):
• ‘Child Exploitation, Assessment and Identification Using Machine Learning – CESIUM’ since 2019.
• ‘Human-Centric Analysis for Conflict and Crisis – HAMOC’ since 2019.
• ‘New Methods to Prevent, Investigate and Mitigate Corruption and Tax Crimes – PROTAX’ 2019.
• ‘DroneRulesPRO: Creating a Privacy Culture among Europe’s UA Professionals’ 2018-2019.
Adjunct Professor in International and European Union Law, Bocconi University – Milan (Jan 2019 – present)
Teaching activity: Comparative Business and European Law (course 30058, bachelor level)
Independent Open Source Intelligence Researcher (Oct 2019 – present)
Image verification; geolocation; chronolocation; socialmedia monitoring.
Incl. volunteer research for Bellingcat (social-media monitoring, archiving, and image verification).
Research Fellow in International and European Union Law, University of Milan (Mar 2015 – Dec 2017)
Legal research, policy analysis and evaluation, drafting of reports and journal articles, teaching in the fields of
technology law, economic sanctions, conflict of laws.
Selected EU-funded Projects (Action Grants):
• ‘Planning the Future of Cross-Border Families – EUFAMS’ 2016-2017.
• ‘Cross-Border Litigation in Europe – EUPILLAR’ 2015-2016.
FURTHER EXPERIENCE
External Expert in International and European Union Law, University of Milan (2018)
Visiting Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, EU and Regulatory Law (2016, 5 months)
Junior Researcher in International Law, University of Milan (2014-2015)
Risk Management & Regulatory Compliance Intern, PricewaterhouseCoopers (2012, 6 months)