Maurizio Mensi is Professor of Law and Economics at the Italian National School of Administration (SNA) and Adjunct Professor of Information and Communications Law at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, where he directs @LawLab, a research centre on cyber law. A lawyer specialising in administrative and EU law, he combines academic work with extensive institutional experience in cybersecurity, digital regulation and communications. He is the co-author of Diritto delle nuove tecnologie (2026).
He is currently a member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL, Athens) and sits on the board of Fondazione Ugo Bordoni.
Earlier in his career, he served in the Legal Service of the European Commission, as an Italian State Lawyer (Avvocato dello Stato) and as Director of the Legal Department of the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM). He was also a member of the Supervisory Board for the Telecom Italia network, which he chaired from 2017 to 2019, and chaired the Media and Minors Committee at the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. From 2020 to 2022 he was Executive Director of the MENA-OECD Governance Programme Training Centre, and he served as Italy’s alternate member of the Council of Europe’s Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government. In 2014 he took part in the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on data privacy.
