Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Welcomes Roberto Baldoni to the Global Trusted Tech Standard Board of Governors

Italian Cybersecurity Pioneer Joins the Market-Driven Benchmark Initiative to
Accelerate Frictionless Collaboration Among Trusted Partners Across the Free World

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN & WASHINGTON, DC – The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue announced today that Roberto Baldoni has joined the Board of Governors of the Global Trusted Tech (xGTT) Standard initiative, aimed to reduce friction, accelerate innovation and enable seamless collaboration among like-minded, trusted partners. Baldoni, Senior Advisor for Technology and Cybersecurity Policy to the Ambassador of Italy to the U.S., joins a distinguished group of international leaders designing a practical benchmark for technological trustworthiness across critical and emerging technologies.

“The Global Trusted Tech Standard is a simple way for trusted partners to find each other and work faster at scale,” said Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. “Trust is the free world’s superpower. xGTT turns trust into a fast lane for collaboration so we can innovate quicker and at larger scale than adversaries who weaponize untrusted tech.”

About Roberto Baldoni

Roberto Baldoni, former Deputy Director General of Italian Intelligence, was appointed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi as the founding Director General of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN). A pioneer of Italy’s cybersecurity architecture, in 2019 he led the drafting of the National Cybersecurity Perimeter Law, designed to exclude untrusted vendors from critical national infrastructures such as 5G networks, and oversaw its implementation until March 2023. Under Baldoni’s leadership, Italy established its National CSIRT and the National Center for Certification and Evaluation (CVCN). He also directed the development of Italy’s first National Cybersecurity Strategy (2022–2026) and, together with Minister Vittorio Colao developed the National Cloud Strategy in 2021. Previously, Roberto was a full professor in computer science at Sapienza University of Rome for more than twenty years.

Uniting Free Nations Through Trust

“In today’s fragmented geopolitical landscape, democratic nations must align on the development and adoption of disruptive technologies to safeguard Western leadership. The Global Trusted Tech Standard, launched by the Krach Institute, serves as a platform to unite free nations around shared principles of trust, transparency, and security,” said Roberto Baldoni. “By fostering collaboration among governments, industry, and innovators, it empowers the private sectors of allied democracies to work together and thrive, ensuring that technological progress reinforces the stability of the free world.”

“It is a profound privilege to collaborate with a remarkable group of visionaries on the Global Trusted Tech Standard. This initiative holds the potential to shape the foundation of our shared technological future,” said Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large and xGTT Standard Chair. “Through open and inclusive co-creation with all stakeholders, we strive to build digital resilience and free the future – together.”

xGTT Board of Governors

The Global Trusted Tech Standard Board of Governors includes:

• Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large (Chair)
• Roberto Baldoni, Founder and First General Director of the National Cybersecurity Agency of Italy
• Isabel Cane, Former Head of the OECD’s Trust in Business Initiative and the Blue Dot Network
• Alex Capri, Senior Fellow and Lecturer, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School
• Rick Echevarria, Former Vice President, Intel
• Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, Former Vice President (Africa Region), World Bank
• Fernando Garibay, Polymath, Producer, Academic, Founder & CEO, The Garibay Institute
• Melanie Garson, Director of Research and Insight, ISTARI
• Dan Goldin, Former and Longest-Serving Administrator of NASA
• Takashi Oda, Director, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy Planning, NTT
• Roman Pačka, Chief Advisor to the Director, National Cyber and Information Security Agency of the Czech Republic
• Heather Petersen, Former Head of Trust Strategy & Marketing, DocuSign
• Arvind Raman, Dean of Engineering, Purdue University
• David Roberts, Former CEO, Applied Research Institute
• Harsh Shringla, Former Foreign Secretary of India, Former Ambassador of India to the U.S.
• Tom Sonderman, CEO, SkyWater Technology Foundry
• Yigal Unna, Former Director General, Israel National Cyber Directorate
• Ken Urquhart, Global Vice President, 5G Strategy, Zscaler

The xGTT Standard: Operator-Led Framework for Speed

The xGTT Standard will specify practical criteria for countries, companies and organizations to be recognized as purveyors of trusted technology based on evaluation across three key pillars:

• Build (Technology Development): secure-by-design engineering, IP integrity, transparent supply chains
• Adopt (Technology Deployment): resilience, interoperability with likeminded, trusted partners.
• Assure (Technology Assurance & Accountability): data privacy, ethical sourcing, rule of law, and transparency that enable mutual recognition among trusted partners.

xGTT creates no new regulatory obligations. Entities that demonstrate these practices can earn the “Trusted Tech” designation, a lightweight, operator-friendly process that signals readiness and unlocks faster, frictionless teaming with other verified, trusted partners around the world.

About the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue 

The Krach Institute is the world’s preeminent trusted technology accelerator. As the leader in the new category of Tech Diplomacy, the Institute integrates technology expertise, Silicon Valley strategies and foreign policy tools to build the Global Trusted Tech Network of governments, companies, organizations and individuals to accelerate the innovation and adoption of trusted technology and ensure technology advances freedom.

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