Main professional topics

Dr. Eng.

Luisa Franchina

Electronic engineer PhD

President of the Italian Association of Critical Infrastructure Protection Experts.

Professor at the School of the Ministry of Exterior.

Main professional topics

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Critical infrastructure protection

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cyber security

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risk assessment, business continuity, risk management

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crisis management

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negotiation

Professional experiences

Present

1. Italian Association of critical infrastructure protection experts - president 2. Hermes Bay Srl (Business intelligence and risk management) - partner 3. Air Medical Srl (Health transport by air - crisis management) - President

University

1. Member of the scientific council of master on “Protezione strategica del sistema paese – le infrastrutture critiche” and "Sicurezza economica, geopolitica e intelligence" della SIOI (Società Italiana di Organizzazione Internazionale, school of the Ministry of Exterior)

2. Professor:

1. CIFIGE Joint formation centre of Intelligence and geopolitical economy

2. Università di Roma La Sapienza Master in Sicurezza delle Informazioni ed informazione Strategica

3. Università di Roma La Sapienza Master in Sicurezza dei Sistemi e delle Reti Informatiche per l'Impresa e la Pubblica Amministrazione

4. SIOI master “Sicurezza economica, geopolitica e Intelligence” and “Protezione strategica del sistema paese – le infrastrutture critiche”

5. Università Bio Campus master on “Protezione infrastrutture critiche”

6. Università di Roma 2 Master “Sistemi e Tecnologie Elettroniche per la Sicurezza, la Difesa e l'Intelligence”

7. Università San Raffaele di Milano master "Criminologia"

8. Università Statale di Milano, master "Management del rischio sanitario" 9. Università LUISS Roma Master on Health and security

10. Link Campus University Master intelligence science

Member of ICSA Foundation about security, of CIS Committee for Information Security at La Sapienza and of OSDIFE, Osservatorio sulla Sicurezza e Difesa CBRNe

Former charges

1.

(2011 - 2013)

Italian Presidency of the Council of the Ministers - Director

General

of the Council of the Ministers and intelligence department Director General

Member of the working group “Gruppo di studio per la sicurezza dell’utilizzo dello spazio cibernetico” (WG on security of cyberspace) created inside the Presidency of the Council of ministers by a President Decree.

Member of the scientific committee – Two years (2010-2012) DOMINO Project cofinanced by EU Commission in the framework of JLS/2009/CFP/CIPS/ call

Since 2007 she is the Italian Contact Point at the European Council for the negotiation and, after the approval, for the accomplishments of the Directive 114/08 CE on “identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructure and the need to improve their protection”, appointed by the Presidency of the Council of the ministers.

Since 2007 she is a Member of the National “Commissione Grandi Rischi” (High Risk Commission, a Civil Protection expert committee) as an expert on Critical Infrastructure and CBRN risks.

Since 2009 she coordinates a master on protection, security and business continuity at the University of Rome LUSPIO and is a lecturer at the University of Rome 2 (Master on CBRN risks), at the University of Malta (Master on critical infrastructure protection), at the Bio Campus university (master on security of critical infrastructures), at the university of Rome La Sapienza (degree in protection and security engineering) and of several masters on cyber security and critical infrastructure protection of private Academies in Rome and Berlin.

2.

(2006 - 2010)

Presidency of the Council of the Ministers - Italian Civil Protection

Department - Director General CBRN Risks

Director General of the reaction team on CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) terrorist attacks and, since January 2010, Director General of the Interministerial Secreteriat for Critical Infrastructure Protection, Presidency of the Council of the Ministers

Italian delegate at NATO SCEPC (committee on emergency planning and crisis management, civil military cooperation)

In 2009 she joint L’Aquila earthquake team to lead the assignment of new houses to the evacuated population (36.000 persons).

3.

(2004 - 2006) Ministry of Communications - Director General

dell’Istituto Superiore

delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione

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and Technologies, she led 180 people and managed 7 million euro per year

2. In feb 2006 she was invited by US Government to join the visitor’s program performing a three weeks visit to federal and State authorities about Critical infrastructure protection. She made a single person program and met several experts of DHS, DoE, DoJ, DS, FBI, NASA, FCC, NISCC, municipalities, Region and State Government of California.

3. Ordinary Member of the Superior Council of the Communications.

4. President of the observatory for the network and information security (interministerial national organism for the safety of the public nets of interconnection and the nets of critical infrastructures).

5. Member of the board of directors of the European Agency for Network and Information Security.

6. Coordinator of interministerial committees of regulation for the TLC sector (quality of the service, anti-spam, standardization of the network security, etc.).

7. Dean of the School for master in telecommunications of Rome 8. Italian Delegate to:

a. International Committees (among which plenary OCSE, OCSE products TLCs, OCSE services TLC, G8, UIT, UNESCO, UPU, WSIS, ILETS);

b. NATO and European committees (among which TCAM, ADCO, EMC, COCOM, IAP, IDA security, .eu);

c. Telecommunications Council of the European Community. d. GAC ICANN (internet worlwide governance)

She led a group of 250 technical experts that published 9 guidelines about network and information security and critical infrastructure protection during the last two years.

4.

(2003 –2004) Ministry of Communications - Director General

per la regolamentazione

e la qualità del servizio.

1. Ministry of Communications - Director General for Regulation and Quality of Service

2. Responsible of the start up of the new general direction for purchasing, safety and informatization of the Ministry for Communications (to be realized within 2004).

3. Ordinary Member of the Superior Council of the Communications. 4. Responsible of the SIA (automatized informative system) of the ministry. 5. Responsible of the regulation of the telecommunications and postal sectors. 6. Authority of control and vigilance of the service universal TLC and postal.

7. Responsible of the vigilance and of the control of the introduction of TLC equipments on the market.

8. Responsible of the national regulation for the network security.

9. President of the observatory for the network and information security (interministerial national organism for critical infrastructure protection);

10. Member of the board of directors of the European Agency for Network and Information Security.

11. Member of the CIPE (Italian Committee of Finance Ministry for governative funds) and the NARS (subcommittee of CIPE);

12. Italian Delegate to:

a. International Committees (among which plenary OCSE, OCSE products TLCs, OCSE services TLC, G8, UIT, UNESCO, UPU, WSIS, ILETS);

b. European committees (among which TCAM, ADCO, EMC, COCOM, IAP, IDA security, ENISA, .eu);

c. Telecommunications Council of the European Community. d. GAC ICANN

4. (2000-2002) Solving International – Manager for Telecommunications Strategy Rome, since Oct 1st 2001, I was involved in the following projects:

- Alpitour: make-or-buy analysis for the new information system (nov – dec 2002, project leader)

- Winterthur: IT, HW and TLC network purchasing (jul – dec 2002, project leader)

- Banca Popolare di Novara: service company organization for IT (jul – dec 2002, project leader)

- Banca Mediolanum: IT, HW and TLC network purchasing (may 2002 – sep 2002, project leader)

- Ministry of Interiors: management organization and purchasing for the centers for immigrated people (nov 2002, project leader)

- Banco Desio: IT purchasing (apr 2002 – jun 2002, project leader)

- METEOR: design to cost of an avionic device for military application (feb 2002 – apr 2002)

- Banca Intesa: IT, HW and TLC network purchasing (dec 2001 – dec 2002, project leader) for 10 banks and 8 companies of BCI Group

- Information Society DG of the European Community: evaluator for projects on UMTS (5th frame program) (mar 2002)

- Wind – ENEL distribuzione: GSM network for data transmission (oct 2001 – dec 2001)

- FINMEK: design to cost of an electronic power meter (oct 2001 – dec 2001)

- H3G: supervision of QoS specifications for UMTS network provisioning (jun 2001 - oct 2001)

- H3G: supervision of the frame contract for UMTS network provisioning between H3G and the provider (oct 2001)

- Wind: cost effectiveness diagnosis (oct 2001)

- IPSE: cost effectiveness diagnosis (oct 2001)

Madrid, Nov 1st 2000 – Sept 30th 2001, I was involved in the following projects:

- Xfera (Spanish TLC operator for UMTS):

- definition of QoS specifications for UMTS network provisioning (nov 2000 - sep 2001, project leader)

- supervision of the turn-key frame contract for UMTS network provisioning among Xfera, Nortel and Ericsson (jun 2000 - sep 2001)

- purchasing area organization and training (nov 2000 - sep 2001)

- definition of QoS specifications for value added service (SIM cards, platforms) provisioning (jan 2001 - sep 2001, project leader)

- technical supervision and negotiation of all the frame contracts for: technical assistance, measurement equipments, maintenance tools, radio and transmission design tools, OTA platform, SIM cards, SIM applications, SMS and USSD gateways and value added service provisioning (jun 2000 - sep 2001, project leader)

University charges

1. (2011-2014) Member of the Administration Council of UNINT Università di Studi Internazionali

2. (2004-2006) director of Scuola Superiore di Specializzazione in Telecomunicazioni del Ministero Comunicazioni

3. (1992-1999) Università di Roma 1, Università di Roma 3, (Kyoto, Caracas, Buenos Aires) – lecturer

4. Lecturer at La Sapienza on Elettronica Applicata e Strumentazione e Misure Elettroniche. 5. (2003-2010) lecturer:

6. università di Malta

7. Berlin European Academy di Berlino 8. Scuola Etica e Sicurezza

9. Marshall Centre di Monaco del G5 10. Scuola dello Stato Maggiore Difesa 11. Scuola Superiore Ministero Interno

Education

2007

Millitary expert on CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents and attacks). Scuola Interforze per la Difesa NBC del Ministero della Difesa, Interforce joint military school on CBRN, Rieti, Italy

2006

Master in Alti Studi Difesa (Politica ed Economia per la Difesa e la Sicurezza) - Master on Defence, geopolitics, strategies and economics for defence and security. Centro Alti Studi del Ministero Difesa Italiano

1996

PhD in Electronic Engineering Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

1994, 1995, 1996

National School for Ph.D. Students

1992

Degree in Electronic Engineering with the final grade of 110/110.

Idioms

Italiano: mother tongue Inglese: proficient Spagnolo: proficient Francese: independent