About - Staff Member - Guido Lobrano
Staff
Guido Lobrano
Areas of Expertise:
Europe, Artificial Intelligence, Antitrust/Competition, Data
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.
Before joining ITI in October 2017, Guido was deputy 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, as well antitrust and state aid legislation. He also coordinated the team responsible for single market policy.
He led the association’s advocacy on Europe’s i2010 Strategy and the Digital Agenda for Europe (2012), as well as the 2015 Digital Single Market (DSM) and Digitising European Industry strategies. He was in charge of privacy and data issues, e-commerce, sharing economy and platforms among others. He covered key legal and policy debates from a cross-sectoral industry perspective, including the 2008-2009 EU Telecoms Review, collective redress (EU-level class action schemes), the process leading to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the transition from the EU-US Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield.
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.
Blog posts by Guido Lobrano
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The EU’s Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report Offers Important Guide to Make Improvements
(February 14, 2024)
Earlier today, the European Commission published the new Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report. The report indicates that roughly half of the identified competitiveness drivers and Key Performance ...
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Four Recommendations to Improve the Cyber Resilience Act
(November 06, 2023)
EU legislators are preparing for the next round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which has the important goal of improving cybersecurity across the European single market. ...
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President Von der Leyen’s State of the Union Should Reflect Europe’s Willingness to Change
(September 11, 2023)
In an increasingly challenging geopolitical and economic climate, strengthening Europe’s resilience and protecting its fundamental values and interests, while preserving an open and sustainable economy ...
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Avoid Creating Inadvertent New Barriers to Transatlantic Trade
(December 20, 2022)
The Inflation Reduction Act’s implications for US Efforts to Engage Allies and Trading Partners In an increasingly challenging geopolitical and economic climate, strengthening the U.S.-EU bilateral relationship ...
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Examining Questions on AI and Liability with ITI Members and MEP Voss
(May 19, 2020)
With the publication of the European Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence on 19 February 2020, the policy debate around Artificial Intelligence – and how it will be regulated by EU institutions ...