Davide Montanaro is a lawyer specializing in Data Protection, Artificial Intelligence, forensic investigation, cybersecurity and Information Technology. He is an auditor operating under the ISDP 10003:2018 certification scheme for the assessment of GDPR compliance.

His main areas of practice include corporate compliance processes, Data Governance, forensic analysis and investigations, the structuring of data-driven operations, Media and Telecommunications, and audits. He leads the Cybersecurity, Audit and Forensic Investigation teams.

He has specific, multidisciplinary expertise in Information Technology, particularly in IT and cloud infrastructures, data and information management systems, and online tracking tools and related technologies. He is familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript.

At Panetta Consulting Group, he is also responsible for monitoring and managing the security systems of the internal infrastructure, overseeing the firm’s technology and implementing web-based services.

In 2017, Davide was one of the 16 Google Public Policy Fellows in the EMEA region and carried out research on cybersecurity and data protection from a consumer perspective at the Istituto per la Competitività (I-Com) in Rome.

Over the past 17 years, he has gained experience in public relations, public speaking and policy-making, having held several prestigious positions in associations and political organizations at local and national level. He is also a member of the Italian Order of Journalists as a giornalista pubblicista (freelance journalist).