Andrea
Calderaro is the Director of the EU Cyber Direct Programme and of the Advancing
the Cyber Programme of Action initiative at the European Union Institute for
Security Studies (EUISS).
Over
his 20 years of engagement in international cooperation in the cyber domain, by
combining his Development Studies and International Relations background, his scholarly
work and expert support has centred on technology and international relations,
with a focus on cybersecurity, cyber diplomacy, transnational governance of
emerging technologies, digital transformations in the Global South, and the
role of the EU in international cyber cooperation. He has supported cyber
capacity-building initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central
America, and within EU institutions and IOs.
He
has served as a member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Research
Board, the “EU Cyber Capacity Building” Task Force (EUISS), the UNESCO Internet
Universality Programme Advisory Board, the Global Internet Policy Observatory
Advisory Group (European Commission), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office (FCDO)’s Advisory Board on Cyber Diplomacy, and the Civil
Society Information Society Advisory Council at the OECD. He has provided
testimony to the House of Lords, the UK FCDO, the European Commission, the
European Council, and the European Parliament, and has supported initiatives
led by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and
the United Nations.
He
has published co-edited volumes, including “Internet Diplomacy: Shaping the
Global Politics of Cyberspace” (2022, Rowman & Littlefield), and articles
in Third World Quarterly, Policy and Internet, International Journal of
E-Politics, and European Security, in addition to contributions in various volumes.
He has served as co-editor of the Digital Technologies and Global Politics book
series at Rowman & Littlefield, and his work has been featured on Al
Jazeera Inside Story, BBC, Rai News 24, The New Statesman, The Verge, The New
York Times, Reuters, La Repubblica, Open Democracy, Deutsche Welle, iPaper/the
Independent, and Wired.
He
is currently on leave of absence from his academic position as Reader
(Associate Professor) in International Relations at Cardiff University. He is
also a Robert Schuman Centre Fellow at the European University Institute and a
Non-Resident Fellow at New America. He has been a visiting scholar, researcher,
or student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Humboldt
University, LUISS Guido Carli, University La Sapienza, École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), University of Oslo, University of Oxford, and
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro.
