Marina Micheli is a Scientific Project Officer at the Digital Economy Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. She is currently researching data intermediaries, business-to-government data sharing, data governance at the city level, inclusive data governance and issues of data power. She holds a PhD in Information Society from the Department of Sociology of University Milano-Bicocca. She is expert for UN-Habitat and Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, co-chair of the ‘Digital Earth Governance and Ethics’ Working Group of the International Society of Digital Earth, and member of the Data Commons Working Group of The New Hanse program