Massimo Esposito
Emerging technologies and their effect on global security
Rear Adm. Massimo Esposito
AFCEA International’s General Manager, AFCEA Europe
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Italian navy Rear Adm. Massimo Esposito (Ret.) is AFCEA International’s general manager, AFCEA Europe.
Esposito comes to AFCEA after serving for three years at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, focusing on new technologies and their effects on future warfare.
Esposito entered the Italian Naval Academy in 1983 and spent 15 years serving aboard warships as an antisubmarine warfare, operations and executive officer.
In addition to his command assignments, Esposito served in a variety of senior positions at single service, joint and international levels, including: Maritime Operations Center manager at NATO Naval headquarters, Naples, Italy; directing staff, teacher and senior researcher at the Italian Joint Staff College, Rome; executive and military assistant to the commanding officer of the Italian Naval Staff College, Venice, Italy; plans section head and military cooperation team leader at NATO Joint Forces Command, Brunssum, the Netherlands; director of the Centre for Maritime Studies at the Italian Naval Staff College, Venice, Italy; and branch head and military assistant at the Italian Military Delegation, NATO HQ, Brussels.
He earned a Master of Arts in defense studies from King’s College in London and in international, strategic and military studies from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Lecce in Italy, a Bachelor of Science in naval and maritime science from the University of Pisa in Italy and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Trieste in Italy. He has also successfully attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, U.K.
