Francesca Bria

Francesca Bria (born 11 November 1977) is an Italian innovation economist, digital policy expert, and information technologist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economics and society, who lectures at various universities and is a consultant amongst others to the United Nations and the European Commission.

Bria is Honorary Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London (UCL, where she teaches courses on digital capitalism and digital cities. She is part of the Management Board of the Italian public broadcast company RAI, and a member of the EC President Ursula von der Leyen's High level Roundtable for The New European Bauhaus.

She is a senior adviser and Ambassador to the United Nation (UN-Habitat) on digital cities and digital rights. She is the former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona and founder of the [https://citiesfordigitalrights.org UN Cities Coalition for Digital Rights] and the [https://decodeproject.eu Decode Project], an EU-wide effort to reclaim citizen's data sovereignty.

She is an Honorary Professor on Technology and Innovation Policy at UCL, where she teaches about the platform economy, digital sovereignty and people-centered smart cities. Provided by Wikipedia