Ilaria Amelia Caggiano is Full Professor of Private Law (since 2020)  of Private Law (since 2020) at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples (UNISOB), where she teaches Institutions of Private Law and Consumer Law and Protection (Department of Legal and Economic Sciences) as well as Law of New Technologies and Privacy (Department of Humanities).

At the same university, she serves as Chair of the University’s Quality Assurance Committee and the Privacy Board. She is a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of CeRICT (Research Consortium on Information and Communication Technology).

She is Vice-Director of the Research Center in European Private Law (ReCEPL) and Vice-Director of the European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies.

Since 2021, she has been leading the European project EUGREENEXT – European Green Rights: Reshaping Fundamental Rights for Next Generations (Jean Monnet Chair), funded by the European Union, and has participated in both Italian and European projects on data protection law, technological vulnerability, banking transparency, and automation (Restart-PNRR, CREA3, LeDiBank, TaTODPR).

She directs a second-level Master’s program on Data Protection Officers and Privacy Law: Legal, Technological, and Behavioral Aspects of Personal Data Protection, now in its third edition.

From March 2023 to May 2024, she acted as a digitalization expert for the Italian Ministry of Health, focusing on the digital transformation of the National Health System (SSN) and participating in technical committees on innovation, digitalization, medically assisted procreation, and medical devices.

Her research activity has taken her to numerous foreign universities, including as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago (USA) in 2011-2012 and as a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at prestigious institutions such as the University of Cambridge (2006, 2009), Oxford (2006, 2015), London School of Economics (2008), Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona (2017), University of Hannover (2017), Université Sorbonne – Centre IRJIS (2019), Católica Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay, 2019), and McGill University (Québec, Canada, 2022).

She has authored essays and monographs on patrimonial liability (trust and asset segregation in money and financial instruments), investor and banking user protection (including through ADR), vulnerabilities in medically assisted procreation, personal data protection, private law aspects of automation and artificial intelligence, and sustainability law. She has also edited various collective publications on these topics.

Prof. Caggiano is a member of the JurAI Consortium – Working Group on Jurimetrics and Artificial Intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (AIAB) of CEPEJ (Council of Europe – Strasbourg).

She has also served as a member of the Banking and Financial Ombudsman (ABF) – Southern Naples Division, designated by the Bank of Italy.