NICOLÒ BORGESANO

Strategic Alignment: Supported the realignment of departmental deliverables with institutional priorities under WTDC-25, the Baku Action Plan, and relevant WTDC Resolutions, notably on Affordable Connectivity and Digital Transformation; ensured coherence between operational outputs and strategic objectives.

Programme Development: Conceived and delivered a standardized approach to programme documentation, translating strategic priorities into structured operational frameworks.

Operational Improvement: Identified operational and funding-related challenges across digital development initiatives, including Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods (DPG), and supported improvements through cross-departmental collaboration.

Performance & Risk: Supported KPI frameworks, performance monitoring and risk identification across internal initiatives, strengthening implementation oversight.

Reporting & Coordination: Prepared reports, presentations and communication materials, coordinating inputs from Project, Division and Department leads to support decision-making and strategic coherence.

Administrative Practices: Mapped operational pitfalls and bottlenecks, consolidated administrative good practices, and supported the alignment of standard operating procedures (SOPs), operational outputs and departmental value delivery across projects and workstreams.

Case Study Leadership: Led the Italian case study within a comparative project on national innovation, coordinating research and developing the country-specific analysis.

Policy & Legal Analysis: Analysed Italy’s legal, policy and institutional approaches to innovation, providing conceptual and linguistic translation across relevant sources and policy contexts.

Geopolitical Analysis: Assessed Italy’s geopolitical role within the EU and its relevance to the broader project’s analysis of national innovation.

Strategic Planning: Delivered project reports within assigned deadlines, contributing findings to strategic planning for subsequent research phases.

AI-Enabled Research: Implemented AI-assisted research procedures and Excel-based data analysis to support research on multilateral diplomacy and AI governance.

Global Policy Mapping: Built and maintained a comprehensive dataset covering the multilateral positions of 195 States, enabling systematic analysis and information-sharing on national approaches to AI governance.

Strategic Analysis: Produced reports and senior-level briefings, translating research findings into strategic analysis to inform follow-up research and project development.

Project Delivery: Delivered project reports within assigned deadlines, supporting the timely progression of subsequent research phases.

Research & Analysis: Contributed to a 400-page research compendium on emerging principles for responsible military AI, conducting research on their legal, ethical and technical implications, including human control, accountability, autonomy, targeting and weapons reviews.

Project Management & Reporting: Supported the management and delivery of the Geneva Process, including project coordination, donor reporting, research planning, expert activities and stakeholder engagement.

Expert & Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinated research and engagement with experts from governments, industry, academia, NATO, the EU and the ICRC, including expert workshops on military AI principles and policy dialogue with NATO and Swiss diplomatic stakeholders.

International Policy Engagement: Supported GCSP contributions to international processes including the UN GGE on LAWS, the UN Secretary-General process under UNGA Resolution 78/241, and the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, contributing research and policy inputs on responsible military AI.

International Representation: Represented GCSP at the 2023 GGE on LAWS meetings and the DILEMA Conference in The Hague, and participated in a high-level diplomatic exchange with Chinese officials on arms control, AI, cybersecurity and regional security.

Conferences & Policy Dialogue: Contributed to the 2023 REAIM Summit, supporting panels, workshops and discussions on responsible AI, AI convergence and emerging military applications.

Subject-Matter Expertise & Dissemination: Contributed to publications, expert briefings and policy outputs on LAWS, human control, AI governance, legal reviews of weapons and responsible military AI; in 2023, provided an expert written interview on the legal, ethical and technical challenges surrounding LAWS and human control.

Research & Analysis: Conducted research on the use of international humanitarian law (IHL)-relevant data in machine-learning applications, examining the intersection of IHL, AI and data in conflict-related contexts.

Research Publication: Contributed to the resulting academic research published in an edited volume examining AI, data and international humanitarian law.

Project Development: Revised project proposals, concept notes and donor reports, ensuring coherence between project objectives, frameworks and planned deliverables.