In this episode, Manasi and Sualeha sit down with Giulia Geneletti, currently studying European Affairs—specifically, Digital Technologies, New Technologies, and Public Policies—at Sciences Po, and previously worked as a Tech Policy Trainee at the European Union Office in San Francisco connecting Brussels to the Bay.

In this episode, we dive deep into how Giulia initially entered the world of European Tech Policy, her initial policy design projects during undergrad, such as with the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) on personal data protection rights, and many of her observations on how the EU Hub in SF serves as a central location to collaborate with those working in policy, industry, academia, and civil society, especially with a focus on digital technology.

Throughout the episode, we also discuss the breadth of policy practices that the EU has prioritized in the past several years in their approach to data privacy & technological regulation. Giulia walks us through the evolution of the EU’s digital policies—from the GDPR to AI Act (passing through DSA and DMA)—across social media and platform regulation to AI governance. Giulia builds on the ways in which the DSA and DMA will hopefully redefine the EU’s digital marketplace over the long-term in alignment with rapidly evolving technological developments bringing opportunities and challenges, while also considering how these policies might act as a blueprint in the regulation of platforms cases globally.