Alessandro Gropelli

Deputy Director General, Director of Strategy & Communications at ETNO

Speaker

Alessandro Gropelli is Deputy Director General of ETNO, the European Telecoms Association, as well as a Board member and Treasurer of GeSI, the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative. At ETNO, Alessandro is in charge of strategy and communications. He is an expert of tech policy, the geopolitics of tech as well as sustainability in ICT.

Prior to joining ETNO, Alessandro was European affairs advisor at Vodafone Group and vice-Chairman of the m-commerce Working Group of mobile operators’ association GSMA Europe. He has also worked in the Brussels team of Telecom Italia and as a public relations officer at the European Parliament.

Alessandro holds an Executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School (2021). He graduated in public management from Bocconi University in Milan (2009), but also spent short periods of study at the Hitotsubashi University of Tokyo (2008) as well as at the MIT (2018) and Berkeley Haas (2016).