Oreste Pollicino

Research Unit Co-Director. He is Full Professor of Constitutional Law and Media Law at Bocconi University. He also teaches in the courses on GDPR, Digital Constitutionalism and AI regulation, Law of Public Policy and he is the Director of the LLM in Law of Technology Automated Systems. He is the President of the Centre on Digital Constitutionalism and Policy (DICOPO), Bruxelles. 

He has been appointed Honest Broker by the European Commission for the negotiation and drafting of the ‘European Union Code of practice on disinformation’(2022), still in force. He represented Italy for 5 years (2020-2025) at the European Agency for Fundamental rights, where he has been also Executive Board Member. 

Moreover, Pollicino is Board Member of the Digital Library, Ministry of Culture; Italian expert at the Steering Committee protection of Fundamental Rights (Counsel of Europe) and academic member of the EU plenary Assembly for the first general purpose AI Code of Practice. In the past he was member to the Conseil of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI). 

At the moment he is Italian member of the OECD Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence and of the Global Alliance, World Economic Forum.