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Gianluca Misuraca
Inspiring Futures Europe
Founder & Chief Executive Officer; Scientific Director, AI4Gov Accelerate (AI4Gov-X); Coordinator, European AI Skills Academy (AISHA)
Description
Gianluca C. Misuraca is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Inspiring Futures Europe and co-founder of Inspiring Futures, a global network which provides research, training and strategic foresight advisory services worldwide, where he acts as Vice President for Technology Diplomacy.
Gianluca is the Coordinator of the European Artificial Intelligence Skills Hub Academy (AISHA), as well as the initiator and Scientific Director of the Digital Europe co-funded initiative “AI4Gov Accelerate” (AI-Gov-X), and he is leading the programme design of AI-SECRETT (AI Enabled Creativity for the Triple Transition). He is also the founder and Head of the Scientific Committee of the Master on AI for Public Services (AI4Gov), led by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Politecnico di Milano where he is also a Research Associate at the Department of Design.
As part of his key recent assignments he has been leading, on behalf of the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, the “Digital Partnerships in Action” (DPA) facility to support implementing Digital Partnership Agreements with Japan, Singapore and South Korea, and the “International Outreach for human-centric Artificial Intelligence” (InTouchAI.eu) initiative to promote the EU approach to trustworthy AI at the global level. Gianluca is also a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures and has been a member of the Council of Europe Expert Group on AI and Education.
Before this, Gianluca was a Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre where, from 2009 to 2020, he has been leading future-oriented research in Digital Governance, Social Innovation, and Artificial Intelligence in the public sector. During his professional career spanning over two decades, Gianluca has advised several international organisations and governments worldwide on digital transformation strategies, including serving the United Nations General Secretariat, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He is an internationally recognised scholar and has authored over 100 publications in the area of digital governance and AI for the public sector, being also a research associate and lecturer in various universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Gianluca’s educational background is in economics and business administration, with a specialisation diploma in EU Law and Economics. He holds an Executive Master’s in Electronic Governance and a PhD in Management of Technology from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Contact: gianluca.misuraca@inspiringfutures.eu / gianlucacarlo.misuraca@polimi.it
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