Elettra Bordonaro is the co-founder and creative director at Light Follows Behaviour as well as co-founder of the Social Light Movement (SLM) with the aim to bring lighting to less affluent communities. Working as lighting designer and consultant on masterplan, exterior and public realm lighting projects, she has lead university courses at the Universities of Rome, Milan and Turin and since 2016, she is visiting professor at Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, USA.

She holds a PhD from the University of Architecture in Turin and is Senior Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics at the Sociology Department as part of the Configuring Light / Staging the Social research group working on various research projects integrating social research into lighting design. In 2020, she was appointed visiting professor at the Lighting Research and Innovation Centre (LRIC), School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT).