Gianluca Misuraca is Founder and Vice President on Technology Diplomacy of Inspiring Futures (IF), a expert network which provides research, training and strategic foresight advisory services worldwide.

Among his key assignments he has been leading, on behalf of the European Commission’s Service For Foreign Policy Instruments, the “Digital Partnerships in Action” (DPA) facility to support implementing Digital Partnership Agreements with Japan, Singapore and South Korea, and the “International Outreach for human-centric Artificial Intelligence” (InTouchAI.eu) initiative to promote the EU approach to trustworthy AI at the global level.

Gianluca is also Founder and former Executive Director of the Master on Artificial Intelligence in public services (AI4GOV) and, since January 2025 he is the Scientific Director of AI4Gov Accelerate (AI-Gov-X), a 20 million Euros initiative co-funded under the Digital Europe Programme.

Prior to this, Gianluca has been from 2009 until 2020 a Senior Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, leading future-oriented research in Digital Governance, Social Innovation and Artificial Intelligence.