Francesca has an International Law and Human Rights background with 15+ years’ experience in working for international organizations (UN and WEF) on action-oriented research, capacity building, technical assistance in human rights, justice, peace and security. She has developed her expertise on countering cybercrime (from hackers profiling to protection of critical infrastructure), misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, crime-tech convergence and misuse of technology, focusing on opportunities, systemic risks and threats created by emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence). She has expertise in leading programs to foster digital resilience, cyber capacity building, diversity and inclusion initiatives. She has been working on securing digital transformation of contextually vulnerable and underserved organizations, in developing countries and in fragile contexts, to foster the achievement of the SDGs. At the Institute, she is leading the strategic engagement in programs and initiatives leveraging multistakeholder cooperation with civil society, academia, corporates, philanthropy and public institutions, to reduce the harms from cyberattacks and to promote sustainable cyberpeace.