Francesca Sartori

Head of Sustainability Research and Standardization, Nokia

Speaker Bio

Francesca is an accomplished business leader with excellent technical acumen, and capable of applying her extensive market knowledge to the telecom dynamic industry.


Her entrepreneurial mindset, combined to her capability to “connect the dots” and effective communication skills, make her a natural choice to lead Nokia’s Sustainability Research & Standardization team that focuses on Environmental Social Governance (ESG) aspects of emerging communication technologies. The team participates in international standardization organizations and industry associations and leads internal and external sustainability research projects.


Francesca is an engineer with over three decades of experience in the telecommunications industry, and she has held multiple roles including ASIC design, product management, sales, marketing, global operator business strategies, and she is passionate about the role digital technologies can play in more sustainable future.


Francesca is Italian but based in Munich, Germany, she loves cooking and she enjoys watching Scifiction movies.