Governance

The ECCC administrative and governance structure includes:

• A Governing Board which provides strategic orientation and oversees ECCC activities.
• An Executive Director who is the ECCC’s legal representative and is responsible for its day-to-day management.
• A Strategic Advisory Group that ensures a comprehensive, ongoing and permanent dialogue between the Community and the Competence Centre.

The ECCC will closely cooperate with the Network of National Coordination Centres (NCCs), one per Member State, which support the cybersecurity Community at national level and under certain conditions can pass on EU funding.

Governing Board

 Governing Board provides strategic orientation and oversees ECCC activities. Its key functions are:

• To provide strategic orientations and oversee the Centre’s activities
• To adopt the work programme, annual budget, consolidated annual activity report
• To adopt the financial rules, the anti-fraud strategy, rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest, communication policy
• To set up working groups within the Community
• To appoint the Executive Director and the Accounting Officer
• To appoint the members of the Strategic Advisory Group 

Executive Director - Luca Tagliaretti

Luca has more than 20 years of experience working with European Institutions and International Organisations, specialising in the domains of digital transformation, cybersecurity, and research and development.

Before joining the ECCC as Executive Director in 2024, he held the roles of Deputy Executive Director and Interim Executive Director of eu-LISA, the European Union Agency for the management of large-scale IT systems. Prior to that he served as head of the Global Technical Centre of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group at the European Central Bank.

Luca's academic achievements include an Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of Milan, a Master's Degree from the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan (MIP), and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University. He has completed the Advanced Leadership and Management Programme (OALMP) at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, as well as the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard University.

Tasks

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Centre
• Responsible for the implementation of the tasks assigned to the Centre by the Regulation
• Assists and supports the Governing Board on behalf of the staff of the ECCC
• Prepares and implements the work programme and reports to the Governing Board