Theatre director, playwright, technopolitical strategist, independent consultant, and activist, in 2017 Rolling Stone magazine selected Simona Levi as one of the 25 people shaping the future.

Since 2018, she has designed and co-directed the Postgraduate Course in Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Age, first at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and later at the University of Barcelona.

She is the initiator of projects such as Xnet — Institute for Democratic Digitalisation and Digital Rights — and 15MPARATO, which drove the Bankia case — the fifth-largest bank in the Spanish state — and the “black cards” case, which led to the conviction of 65 politicians and bankers, 15 of whom were imprisoned, including Spain’s former Minister of Economy and former President of the International Monetary Fund.

In 2021, she published for the Publications Office of the European Union the report “Proposal for a Sovereign and Democratic Digitalisation of Europe”, at the request of the President of the European Parliament.

She is the author of several books. Among them: “Democratic Digitalisation. Digital Sovereignty for the People” (Rayo Verde, 2024); “Fake You – An Activist’s Guide to Defeating Disinformation – Don’t blame the people, don’t blame the Internet. Blame the power” (Xnet, 2024); “#FakeYou — Fake News and Disinformation – Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, great fortunes: monopolies of information manipulation and curtailment of freedom of expression” (Rayo Verde, 2019); “Vote and Get Paid. Impunity as a Form of Government” (Capitán Swing, 2017); “Technopolitics, the Internet and r-evolutions” and “Digital Free Culture – Basic Notions to Defend What Belongs to Everyone”, the latter two published in 2012 by Icaria.

Her performances have been staged in theatres and festivals throughout Europe, and she has created high-impact festivals such as OXcars and InnMotion.

She is a member of the Working Group on European Digital Sovereignty and Common Digital Tools and Infrastructures of the Directorate-General for Strategic Planning of the Ministry for Digital Transformation of the Government of Spain.

She is and has been a media commentator and advisor to countless civic organisations and institutions, including the Spanish Government’s Secretariat of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence; the Directorate for Digital Society and the Directorate-General for Digital Administration of the Government of Catalonia (in both institutions she was a member of the advisory group for drafting the Charter of Digital Rights); the Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia on the Whistleblower Protection Law; the Ministry of Culture’s Cultural Rights Plan; evaluator for the European Commission on projects applying for funding in the field of democratic improvement; Bithabitat – Barcelona City Council’s Urban Innovation Platform; the i2CAT Foundation’s Internet and Digital Innovation Research Centre; the Human Rights Advisory Council of the Government of Catalonia; and the European Public Mosaic – Open Journal on Public Service of the School of Public Administration of Catalonia.

She has been a prominent figure of the 15M movement from Barcelona and of movements for the right to housing.