Guido Lobrano

Guido Lobrano is ITI’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Director General for Europe, leading ITI’s work on the European Union’s activities impacting technology and innovation. Guido is based in Brussels, Belgium, where he opened ITI’s first office in Europe. He coordinates ITI’s work on EU initiatives in areas such as privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and data, competition policy and platform issues, and supports the work on digital trade and taxation.

Since 2023, Guido is also a Member of the Board of the European Society of Association Executives (ESAE), the leading organisation for Association Leaders, and he also co-chairs ESAE’s Advocacy Community.

Before joining ITI in 2017, Guido was acting director for legal affairs, internal market and digital economy at BusinessEurope, the confederation of European industry. He was in charge of digital and tech policy, and led the coordination of BusinessEurope’s Legal Affairs and Internal Market teams.

Throughout his career, Guido engaged in many crucial policy debates from a cross-industry perspective, including the 2008-2009 Telecoms Review, key developments in competition policy, the adoption of the GDPR and discussions on international data flows, including the transition from the EU-US Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield and then the 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Most recently, he was involved in key initiatives on AI, cybersecurity, data governance and tech & sustainability among others.

Guido began his professional career working in law firms in the United States, France, Italy and Belgium, on international and EU law. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics, particularly technology and competition policies. He received his law degree in Italy at the University of Sassari and an Erasmus diploma from the University of Vienna.