Luciano Floridi (Italian: [flo'ri?di]; born 16 November 1964) is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
He is also Adjunct Professor ("Distinguished Scholar in Residence"), Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C.
He is Turing Fellow and Chair of the Data Ethics Group (DEG) of the Alan Turing Institute
Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information and information ethics.
Between 2008 and 2013, he held the Research Chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire.
He was the founder and director of the IEG, an interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford, and of the GPI the research Group in Philosophy of Information at the University of Hertfordshire.
He was the founder and director of the SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy (1995–2008).
He is a former Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.His works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.