Laura Caroli

Laura Caroli is the senior fellow of the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She is a former senior policy advisor at the European Parliament, where she worked for MEP Brando Benifei for 10 years on AI, digital policy, consumer protection, foreign affairs and defense. She co-led negotiations on the EU AI Act at technical level. She previously worked at the Intelligence Foresight Committee of the Italian Parliament and at the Italian think tank “Italianieuropei” in Rome. She holds a PhD in geopolitics from the University of Trieste.