David Osimo

David Osimo is director of Research in The Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank set up in 2003 to intellectually accompany the Lisbon Agenda, Europe’s original growth and jobs programme. He coordinates the research activity on issues such as data economy, digital government, start-ups, and scale-up policy as well as pioneering novel collaborative methods for policy research.

He previously served as director and co-founder of two start-ups, as a scientific officer in the European Commission Joint Research Centre and advised the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He holds degrees from the University of Milan and the University of Cardiff.