Benedetta Giovanola

Benedetta Giovanola is a Full Professor at the University of Macerata (UniMC) in the Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations. She holds the Jean Monnet Chair 'Ethics for Inclusive Digital Europe' (funded by the EU) and is a Visiting Professor at Tufts University, USA. She also serves as Adjunct Professor of 'Economic Philosophy and Business Ethics' at the Catholic University of Milan. Her roles include Director of the postgraduate course on 'Digital Ethics, Law, Technologies' and member of the executive board of the 'Cybersecurity, Cyber Risk and Data Protection' program, both jointly run with the Polytechnic University of Marche.

• Current roles: Jean Monnet Chair, Full Professor, Visiting Professor at Tufts, Adjunct Professor at Catholic University Milan.
• Leadership: Founder of GAIA (AI Ethics and Governance spin-off), Principal Investigator (PI) in EU-funded projects like EthicAI4CARE and REINITIALISE.
• Professional memberships: Member of the executive board of SIFM (Italian Association for Moral Philosophy), past Deputy Rector at UniMC (2016-2022).

Research focuses on digital ethics, AI ethics, media ethics, public ethics, social and global justice. She leads projects such as ENDE (European Network on Digitalization and E-Governance) and publishes extensively on AI ethics in healthcare, cultural heritage, and business contexts. Her work emphasizes ethical frameworks for trustworthy AI and fairness in algorithmic systems.

Awards and recognition include the Jean Monnet Chair, and her research has been featured in journals like AI & Society, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, and IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. She also contributes to policy initiatives and ethical guidelines for emerging technologies.