Francesca Bria is a Senior Fellow at Stiftung Mercator in Berlin and Honorary Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London. She is a member of the High-level Roundtable for the New European Bauhaus set up by the EC President Ursula von der Leyen to accelerate the EU Green Deal. She is an Executive Board Member of the Italian public media company RAI, and the former President of the Italian National Innovation Fund.