Lara Natale is Chief Impact Officer at the Centre for Future Generations in Brussels, where she sits on the Executive Committee, owns the organisation’s impact framework and serves as Interim Director of the Advanced AI programme. Technology diplomacy has been the thread throughout her career.
As a UK diplomat at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU, she led negotiations on landmark Digital Single Market files, including the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, briefing Ministers and Permanent Representatives at Ministerial Councils. At FTI Consulting she co-led the EU technology, media and telecoms practice and was deployed globally as an EU Council expert on negotiating tactics. At the Centre on Regulation in Europe she directed policy research as the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act took shape. At Vodafone Group she led engagement on digital trade, EU-UK relations, cloud sovereignty and AI regulation.
She now works with EU Commissioners, national Ministers and Ambassadors on AI governance, advises philanthropic leaders on technology policy, and regularly speaks and moderates at high-level panels and closed-door roundtables.