Francesca Bria is the President of the Italian National Innovation Fund, CDP Venture Capital. She is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London, and a member of the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus High-level Roundtable. She is also a member of the European Commission High level Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR).
Bria earned her PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College, London and MSc on Digital Economy from the University of London, Birkbeck. She has been teaching in several universities in the UK and Italy and she has advised Governments, public and private organizations on technology and innovation policy, and its socio-economic and environmental impact.
Francesca has been listed in the Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes Magazine, and in the World’s top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical. She has also been featured in the Italian Magazine Repubblica D as one of the 100 Women Changing the World. In 2020 she was nominated ‘Culture Person of the year’ by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Francesca Bria also received the honour of Commander of Merit of the Italian Republic.
