Francesco Cajani has been a Public Prosecutor at the Court of Milan since 2004. He has extensive experience in cybercrime and counter-terrorism, having worked on some of Italy’s earliest phishing investigations and on cases involving foreign fighters in territories controlled by the Islamic State. He currently prosecutes offences against the Public Administration.

He is the Italian contact point for cybercrime at Eurojust and a member of the European Judicial Cybercrime Network. As Italy’s representative on the T-CY, he has contributed to the Council of Europe’s work on cross-border access to electronic evidence, including the drafting of the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention.

He has also served as a speaker and judicial expert in numerous training programmes organised by the Italian School for the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura). He is the author of numerous articles published in leading Italian legal journals and co-author of Cyber Forensics e indagini digitali. Manuale tecnico-giuridico e casi pratici (Giappichelli, 2021).

He is also actively engaged in restorative justice through Lo Strappo. Quattro chiacchiere sul crimine, an educational project that explores crime from the perspectives of victims, offenders, institutions, the media and civil society.