Alessandro is a doctoral researcher at VUB and executive member of the Brussels Privacy Hub. He holds a bachelor degree in History from Ca' Foscari University (Venice, Italy) and a master of social science in International Security and Law from Southern Denmark University (Odense, Denmark).

Alessandro worked as cybersecurity consultant, specialising in advisory services to governments and international organisations concerning national cybersecurity issues, cyber-capacity building, national cybersecurity strategy drafting and monitoring, and national digital identity systems.