EOSC-A Director, 2025

Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, NORDUnet

Licia FLORIO

Licia has more than 20 years of experience in coordinating international research and experimentation projects and initiatives to enable secure access to online resources. She currently serves as a Senior Strategy and Policy Officer at NORDUnet.


  • Coordinator of the AARC-TREE project
  • Lead Service Delivery and Quality Assurance for the LOT2 and LOT3 consortia in the delivery of the EOSC EU Node
  • Former Senior Trust and Identity Manager at GÉANT
  • Recipient of the Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour (2018) for leading most of the initiatives that make up the current European and global authentication and authorisation landscape for research and education
  • Past external expert for the European Commission as proposal evaluatorunder Horizon Europe (Cybersecurity calls)