Massimo Marelli is the Head of the Data Protection Office at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

He is also a member of the Advisory Board and a Fellow at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) at the University of Maastricht, and co-director of the Humanitarian Action Programme at ECPC. Massimo is also a member of the Brussels Privacy Hub Advisory Board, and the editor of the Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Prior to his current role, Massimo led the creation and establishment of the ICRC Delegation for Cyberspace in Luxembourg and held several assignments with the ICRC in the field and at the headquarters. Prior to joining the ICRC Massimo worked as a Référendaire at the General Court of the European Union, and as a lawyer in private practice. He has also held appointments as member of the Data Protection Commission at CERN, and Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.