Rocco Panetta, Partner Panetta & Associati, Rome and Member of the Italian Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Commission
Rocco Panetta, Attorney-at-Law, is founding and name Partner of Panetta & Associati, a law boutique operating in Rome in the field of Privacy and Data Protection, Telecoms and IT, Cloud Computing, Energy, Renewable and Environmental.
Rocco is member of the Italian Environmental Impact Assessment Commission and former Secretary General of the same. He is also former Head of Legal and previously Chief of Chairman’s Staff of the Italian Data Protection Authority and Italian Representative to the EU Commission (EC) and to the Council of Europe (COE) within the activities of the Art. 29 WP (EU Group of Data Protection Authorities).
In the private practice, he is former Senior Associate of Baker & McKenzie LLP’s Rome office.
Several years of academic experiences, gained both in Italian universities (“La Sapienza”, Rome and “RomaTre”, Rome) and abroad (Warvick University, SMU Dallas, LSE London).
Speaker and co-ordinator of various specialization courses, masters and conferences on Privacy and Data Protection, Energy and Environmental, Telecommunications, Information Technologies.
Author and co-author of publications, articles and books published by CEDAM, Padua; Jovene, Naples; La Tribuna, Piacenza; Sweet & Maxwell, London; Giappichelli, Turin; Giuffrè, Milan; Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, UTET, Turin.
Rocco is currently member of the European Advisory Board of the IAPP and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Energy Law in Dallas.