A lawyer by training, Fabrizia Benini joined the European Commission in 1995. Throughout her career, she has worked on the intersection between regulatory frameworks and technological developments, taking into account users’ perspectives in the internal market, competition and industry departments.
Jorge Cancio is Co-Director of International Relations at the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland.
Thomas Schneider is Ambassador and Director of International Affairs at the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) in the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). He is a long-standing expert in digital governance and in the governance of the information and knowledge society and artificial intelligence. He is leading the Swiss delegation in various key international fora in these fields.
Prior to her appointment, she held the position of Ambassador to the European Union from 2014 to 2024.
Between 2012 and 2014, she served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania as Director at the Department for Treaties and International Law, and later, as General Director for Multilateral Relations.
From 2004 to 2007, she was counsel at the General Consulate of Albania in Milan, and from 1999, until then, she was a legal expert in the Department for Treaties and International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Lokaale served as the Head of the Presidential Secretariat on the South Sudan Peace Process from January 2024. From July to December 2023, he was a Climate Change Advisor at Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs. Since September 2022, Mr. Lokaale been a managing partner at Northern Consulting Solutions, a Kenyan consulting firm with focus on climate change, governance and human rights.