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Professor of Business and Innovation Management and Director of HighESt Lab at the University of Turin, former Italian Minister for Innovation and Digitalisation
Paola Pisano is Professor of Business and Innovation Management at the University of Turin and Director of HighESt Lab. Her research examines public-sector innovation policy and the governance and geopolitics of emerging technologies. From 2019 to 2021 she served as Italy’s Minister for Innovation and Digitalisation, leading the country’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Solidarietà Digitale initiative and the Immuni contact-tracing app. She was previously Turin’s City Councillor for Innovation and Smart City (2016–2019) and contributed to the drafting of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.