Professor, University of Florence

Luigi Martino (PhD) teaches Cyber Security and ICT Policies at the School of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri” at the University of Florence and he is the coordinator of the Center for Cyber Security and International Relations Studies (CCSIRS) a specialized observatory of the CSSII.

He obtained the PhD at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa with a research project focused on the protection of critical infrastructures from cyber attacks in Italy through a public-private partnership model.

From 2016 to 2018, he was project manager of the joint research project OSCE-UniFi “Enhancing the implementation of OSCE CBMs to reduce the risk of conflict stemming from the use of ICTs” and in 2017 he was the contributor of the G7 “Declaration on Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace”. He is member of the Research Advisory Group of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and is Director of the CCSIRS-Unifi node of the CINI-National Cybersecurity Laboratory.

In 2019 the US Department of State included Luigi in the International Visiting Leadership Program dedicated to the Multilateral Cooperation in Cyberspace.