About - Staff Member - Guido Lobrano
Guido Lobrano
Areas of Expertise:
Europe, Artificial Intelligence, Antitrust/Competition, Data
Guido Lobrano is 91¿ì»îÁÖ’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Director General for Europe, leading 91¿ì»îÁÖ’s work on the European Union’s activities impacting technology and innovation. Guido is based in Brussels, Belgium, where he opened 91¿ì»îÁÖ’s first office in Europe. He coordinates 91¿ì»îÁÖ’s work on EU initiatives in areas such as privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and data, competition policy and platform issues, and supports the work on digital trade and taxation.
Since 2023, Guido is also a Member of the Board of the European Society of Association Executives (ESAE), the leading organisation for Association Leaders, and he also co-chairs ESAE’s Advocacy Community.
Before joining 91¿ì»îÁÖ in 2017, Guido was acting director for legal affairs, internal market and digital economy at BusinessEurope, the confederation of European industry. He was in charge of digital and tech policy, and led the coordination of BusinessEurope’s Legal Affairs and Internal Market teams.
Throughout his career, Guido engaged in many crucial policy debates from a cross-industry perspective, including the 2008-2009 Telecoms Review, key developments in competition policy, the adoption of the GDPR and discussions on international data flows, including the transition from the EU-US Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield and then the 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Most recently, he was involved in key initiatives on AI, cybersecurity, data governance and tech & sustainability among others.
Guido began his professional career working in law firms in the United States, France, Italy and Belgium, on international and EU law. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics, particularly technology and competition policies. He received his law degree in Italy at the University of Sassari and an Erasmus diploma from the University of Vienna.
Blog posts by Guido Lobrano
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Europe Must Follow Through on Its Digital Agenda
May 12, 2026
Last week, 91¿ì»îÁÖ convened tech executives, Irish government leaders, and key EU decisionmakers in Dublin for a conversation about Europe's digital future. The timing was deliberate. Ireland assumes the Presidency ...
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Ambition is Key to Digital Omnibus Success
January 9, 2026
Simplification of the EU’s tech rulebook is crucial to making Europe competitive. The recent Digital Omnibus proposal is an important step toward improving legal clarity for innovators, reducing fragmentation, ...
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Simplifying the EU Digital Regulation: Key Overlaps and Challenges
February 10, 2025
As Europe's digital regulatory landscape continues to evolve, businesses face an increasingly complex web of overlapping requirements. While these regulations aim to protect consumers and ensure responsible ...
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The EU’s Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report Offers Important Guide to Make Improvements
February 14, 2024
Earlier today, the European Commission published the new Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report. The report indicates that roughly half of the identified competitiveness drivers and Key Performance ...
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Four Recommendations to Improve the Cyber Resilience Act
November 6, 2023
EU legislators are preparing for the next round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which has the important goal of improving cybersecurity across the European single market. ...