Luigi Martino, head of the Center for Cyber Security and International Relations Studies, a specialized observatory of the CSSII at the Department of Political Science (University of Florence). Currently, Luigi is Ph.D. Candidate in Human Rights and Global Politics, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna, Pisa with a Research Project on “Improving Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure in Italy: The Public-Private Partnership Model Against Cyber Attacks” and he is Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP).

He is Consultant of Italian MoFA for “cyber issues” and he is Member of the Delegation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the G7 Ise-Shima Cyber Group. He holds the MA in IR with a focus on the Strategic Relevance of Cyberspace and the Risks of Cyber Warfare.

He is a member of the Research Advisory Group of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and member of the experts group ENISA for the implementation of the European Directive NIS. Since 2017, he is a member of the Forum for Cyber Expertise, representing the Center for Cyber Security and International Relations Studies.

Author of many publications in Italian, English and Spanish on cyber security, cyber warfare, cyber intelligence and cyber diplomacy.