Biography

Lisa Ginsborg is a Senior Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance where she leads the training program and conducts policy research for the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). She is also a lecturer in International Human Rights at New York University (NYU) Florence.

Previously she has worked in a number of research and teaching positions, including at University College Dublin (UDC), the EUI Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, and the Human Rights Global Campus. She has also worked for leading international human rights organizations, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.

Her research interests in the field of international human rights law, include digital technologies, international institutional law and disinformation policy and regulation. She recently co-edited a book on “Disinformation: a Multistakeholder Analysis” (Springer, 2026), providing a multidisciplinary analysis of disinformation and strategies for tackling it.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• Digital transformations and society

Executive Education Involvement

• Migration Communication Strategies: Effective Approaches to Depolarise the Debate

Recent research output

• GINSBORG, Lisa; GORI, Paula (2026), Disinformation : a multi-disciplinary analysis, Book
• GINSBORG, Lisa (2026), International human rights law and the legal regulation of disinformation, Contribution to book
• CESARINI, Paolo; GINSBORG, Lisa; GORI, Paula; MAGGI, Elena; NIJMEIJER, Rolf (2024), Platforms' implementation of the CoP commitments on media literacy, research and fact-checking, Technical Report
• GINSBORG, Lisa (2024), Report on EDMO workshop on platform data access for researchers, Technical Report
• GINSBORG, Lisa; GORI, Paula (2021), Online platforms and the COVID-19 infodemic in the EU, Technical Report
• GINSBORG, Lisa (2021), Moving toward the criminalization of 'pre-crime' : the UN Security Council’s recent legislative action on counterterrorism, Contribution to book