Bio

Emilio Mordini chairs Responsible Technology, a Paris-based consultancy devoted to responsible research and innovation, and anticipatory governance. He is Research Fellow at the Haifa University Health and Risk Communication Center. He serves as Academic Supervisor in the CAS on Biometrics and Privacy of the Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz. Emilio chairs the Ethical Committee of the European Association of Biometrics,He is member of the European Technology Assessment Group (ETAG). He is Full Member of the Association of Professional Futurists and Member of the Medical Journalists Association. Emilio has a background in medicine and philosophy. He was trained as a psychoanalyst and has practiced for more than 30 years. He is an expert and consultant on risk communication and psycho-societal impact of emerging technologies, in the public health, security, and surveillance fields. His research activity focuses on the collective imaginary, and the social unconscious; how they influence rational choices, shape action, determine futures, through narratives, ideologies, identities,and values. He was partner of the Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research (1986-01), Adjunct Professor of bioethics at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome (1994-06), scientific secretary of the Bioethical Commission of the National Research Council (2000-03); Founding Director (2002-2013) of the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship (CSSC), an independent research centre, devoted to the human impact of emerging technologies. Emilio has been awarded with a number of research grants by the European Commission, within the scope of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th RTD FPs, and H2020, and by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. He has coordinated research teams and collaborative projects both at international and national levels. He has extensively published in academic publications, and edited several books.