Andrea Calderaro

Andrea Calderaro, PhD, is a researcher at the Centre for Media Freedom and Media Pluralism at the European University Institute. His research focuses on ICTs and International Politics, with a particular focus on internet governance, cybersecurity and conflict transformations, digital rights and freedoms, and the role of EU in the global internet policy debate. His publications include the guest-editing of ‘Policy & Internet’ special issue on “Online Collective Action and Policy Chance” (2013), and the inaugural issue of the International Journal of E-Politics, IJEP - “E-Politics in a Global Context” (2010).
He is also affiliated to the Internet Policy Observatory at the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication / UPenn, to the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina, and he serves as Chair of the ECPR Internet & Politics standing group, a member of the CSISAC board at the OECD, and he is an Executive Member of the International Communication Section of the International Studies Association. Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome in “New Media and International Relations”, Visiting Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo (2012). He served as expert consultant to the European Commission, European Parliament, and Tactical Technology Collective. He holds his PhD and M.Phil in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.