Gabriella Cattaneo is Associate Vice President of the IDC European Government Consulting unit, which she founded in 2005 to provide research and consulting services to governments and policy makers on ICT market trends and scenarios, leveraging IDC’s global research. Cattaneo has more than 30 years’ experience in socio-economic research, impact assessment and benchmarking of ICT policies on behalf of the European Commission. She represents IDC in the Big Data Value Association (BDVA). Cattaneo is a graduate in Political Sciences Magna cum Laude from Milan State University with a prize-winner research Thesis and worked ten years as a business journalist before becoming an ICT industry analyst.