Barbara Carfagna

Journalist and Rai TV Channel 1 news anchorwoman, Barbara Carfagna  produces reports and 60 minutes documentaries on digital impact on societies for the TG1 news broadcasts. Since 2017 she has been a writer and presenter for “Codice”, a program on Rai 1, which explores digital companies, digital policies, blockchain and technology in depth. She anchors  a Podcast on Innovation  on Radio1 called “CodceBeta”.

She’s professor in sociology at “La Sapienza” University in Rome.

Barbara’s journalistic reportages brought her in Ethiopia, Niger (where she produced reports on the expansion of fundamentalist Islam) Nigeria (where she exclusively interviewed Safya, the woman condemned to stoning for adultery), South Africa, Cambodia (where she produced documentaries about history and child trafficking) Germany (exploring neo-Nazism in former East Germany). She produced and realized reports on French colonies in Africa for Rai Educational (now known as Rai Cultura).

Since 2009 she focused with particular attention to digital Era,  popular science, cybersecurity, philosophy, politics and digital economy reporting from Singapore, Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh, Iceland, Japan, Israel, UAE, Corea, Emirates, Saudi Arabia.

She contributes articles regarding politics, economy, and digital societies to the publications Italiana, Il Foglio, Sole 24 ore, Panorama and Formiche.

She has produced economics and finance reports regarding sovereign funds in the United Arab Emirates, cyberwar at NATO in Brussels, digital policies and start ups in Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh, Israel, Singapore, UAE and Japan, interviewing academics and researchers in laboratories at major Universities around the world.

She is member of Aspen Institute think tank and was a member of the Board of Directors of Vedrò, Italian think tank.

She is moderator and speaker at numerous conferences, both institutional and non-institutional, on issues of science, religion, philosophy, economics, geopolitics, ICT, innovation and defence, presenting in Italian, English and French.

Speaker and lecturer in digital and cybersecurity training courses for: executives in Italian companies; American multinationals; armed forces at the Chiavari School, intelligence at Link Campus University, Cyber ​​and Politics at Tel Aviv University and the LUISS course for Public Administration Executives.