Francesca Spidalieri

Francesca Spidalieri

Senior Fellow for Cyber Leadership, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University; Associate, Hathaway Global Strategies
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Francesca Spidalieri is a Senior Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, where she leads the Cyber Leadership research project and the Rhode Island Corporate Cybersecurity Initiative (RICCI). She is also an Associate at Hathaway Global Strategies, and serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 project at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and as a Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. Her academic research and publications have focused on cyber leadership development, cyber risk management, comparative organization analysis, and national cyber preparedness and resilience. She lectures regularly at cyber-related events in Europe and the US and contributes to journal articles and other publications on cybersecurity matters affecting countries and organizations worldwide.