Deputy Director
Elda Brogi – Part-time Professor and Deputy Director
Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom from 2012 to 2024. She has developed and worked on the flagship project of the CMPF, the Media Pluralism Monitor, since its inception.
Member of EDMO, European Digital Media Observatory, and former member of EDMO Executive Board. Within EDMO she works on Task VII, Policy analysis and research.
Elda Brogi’s main interests span Constitutional, European, Media and Internet law, alongside methodologies to measure complex phenomena. She holds a degree in Law (University of Florence), a Ph.D. in Public Law and Constitutional Law (University La Sapienza, Rome) and she is an Italian qualified lawyer. Fellow of the seminario di Studi Parlamentari “Silvano Tosi”
She teaches Communication Law at the University of Florence.
Elda Brogi has worked at the European and Italian Parliaments assisting and advising MPs on media policies and legislation, electronic communications regulation, freedom of expression, human rights, governance, drafting and better regulation. She also worked as research fellow at the Universities of Florence (Media Integration and Communication Centre) and Perugia and as a research associate at the EUI (Law Department). She has also been an IT law specialist in a law firm and a consultant for international institutions on media and IT law; she took part (sometimes as a coordinator) in many European and Italian research projects.
Elda Brogi has a long-standing experience as a member of the expert committees of the Council of Europe: she recently served as a member of the MSI-RES committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media at the Council of Europe. Within the Committee she was co-rapporteur of the report on Good practices for sustainable news media financing. She also served as a member of the Council of Europe MSI-REF Committee of Experts on Media Environment and Reform. Within this Committee she was also appointed as co-rapporteur for the draft recommendation by the Committee of Ministers to member States on election communication and media coverage of electoral campaigns in 2020-2021; in the Committee of experts on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership (MSI-MED) in 2016-2017 and in the Committee of experts on protection of journalism and safety of journalists (MSI-JO) in 2014-2015.
She was also member of the Advisory Council for the 2017 “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development” Report, UNESCO and member of the Steering Committee of the review Medialaws and Rivista Italiana di Informatica e Diritto.
Member of the advisory board of the project ALGEPI understanding ALGorithmic gatekeepers to promote EPIstemic welfare.
In 2022, she joined the Research Policy Network on Media Plurality of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).