Roberto Baldoni served as the inaugural General Director of Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN). Prior to this, he spent four years as the Deputy General Director of Italian Intelligence. With over two decades of experience as an esteemed researcher in "secure and reliable distributed systems" and Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, he has been a key figure in shaping Italy’s cybersecurity landscape. His main contributions, as high government official, include architecting the designing of the Italian Cybersecurity Architecture (decree law 82/2021), the "National Security Perimeter for Cyber” law, the “Italian Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022-2026” and, most importantly, he set the ACN up and made it operational in a few weeks in a very complex geopolitical landscape.