Enrico Francesconi is a Research Director at IGSG-CNR, the Institute for Legal Informatics and Judicial Studies of the National Research Council of Italy and, currently, he is Policy Officer of the European Parliament. 

His main research interests include Semantic Web technologies for the legal domain, legal ontologies and knowledge representation, AI techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, e-Government, e-Participation, semantic models for the document collections of the EU.

He has been Policy Officer of the European Commission - DG Publications Office.

He is President of the Nominating Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). He was IAAIL President for the period 2020-2021 and Member of the IAAIL Executive Committee (2014-2021). He is Section Editor on Ontology and Knowledge Representation of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (Springer), co-Editor in Chief of the Journal on Open Access to Law (Cornell University, Law School), Scientific Advisory Board Member of Law, Governance and Technology Series (Springer).