Expert on the innovation and entrepreneurship dossiers combining worlds of policy and business.
Providing support to Vice President Ansip's Working Group on Digital Entrepreneurship at the UN Broadband Commission.
Policy analyst, brand management professional and entrepreneur with experience from the EU Commission (DG GROW, DG CNECT, DG RTD), non-profit & private sector (fast moving consumer goods and pharmaceutical industry). Expertise in start-up and scale-up policies, access to finance for innovative SMEs (alternative finance and new financial instruments), ICT and innovation, data economy. Leader of multiple projects for the European Commission, including New financial instruments for innovation as a way to bridge the gaps of EU innovation support (DG RTD), and Assessing the Potential for Crowdfunding to Support Research and Innovation (DG RTD), and Startup Manifesto Policy Tracker, European Digital Forum, European Commission (DG CNECT). Co-author of 2016 Startup Nation Scoreboard.
Public speaker and moderator
Experience moderating panels and workshops. Public speaking experience at numerous panels, workshops, conferences at national, regional and international level, including:
- Workshops of / for the European Commission (such as Opening Research Data, Evaluation of SiS/SaS Programmes);
- regional and international conferences: SME Assembly, EuroDig, Internet Governance Forum, African IGF, GLOBSEC TATRA Summit
- Brussels-based debates: eg. ThinkDigital or Committe of the Region Annual Conference
- European Parliament meetings.