Massimo Russo is the Managing Director of the DigitaI Division of GEDI e amministratore delegato di HuffPost Italia. Until July 2016 he was Co-Editor in chief of the Italian national daily La Stampa. Before he served as  Editor in chief of Wired Italia, the magazine of innovation, published by Condé Nast. Previously he worked as digital content Director and online jourmalist at Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for 12 years, and as Editor in Chief of the Visual Desk, the internal agency producing all the digital video/animation/design offer of L’Espresso and Repubblica.it for 4 years. Before he served as a reporter and a senior editor in L’Espresso daily newspapers for 10 years. He co-authored “Eretici Digitali“, on journalism in the digital age and “Attacco ai pirati”, on Hacking team case.  He is a contributor of Treccani – Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana – on Design in the Internet and 3D printers age (Libro dell’anno 2015). He is a member of the Italian Parliamentary Commission in charge of drafting and implementing an Internet Bill of rights (2014-present). He has been lecturing regularly at Urbino University on Online Journalism from 2002 to 2014, and occasionally lectures in other Universities in Milan, Bologna, and Rome. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University (NYC – USA). He holds a degree in Economics (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), and a master in Journalism and Mass Communication (Luiss, Roma).