Federico Boccardi is a Principal Technology Advisor in the Ofcom Technology Group, where he leads the mobile programme and the emerging technologies programme.

He received a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2002 and 2007 respectively, and a master in Strategy and Innovation from the Oxford Saïd Business School in 2014. Before joining Ofcom, he was with Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent) from 2006 to 2013 and with Vodafone R&D in 2014.

He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for Department of Informatics at the King’s College London, a Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol and a Fellow of the IET.