Andrea Calderaro is a Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. His research centres on Internet and International Politics, with a particular focus on Internet Governance, Cybersecurity, telecom policy development, Internet and Human Rights, and the role of the EU in the global internet policy debate. He is also Fellow at the Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication / UPenn and at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina.He serves as Editor of the “Digital Technologies and Global Politics” Book Series at Rowman&Littlefield, as Chair of the ECPR Internet & Politics standing group, and a member of the Global Internet Policy Observatory’s Advisory Group/European Commission. Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome in “New Technologies and International Relations”, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Internet and Society at Humboldt University, Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom/European University Institute, Visiting Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo. He hols his PhD and M.Phil in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute