Policy Officer, Access to Finance

European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Policy Officer in DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), responsible for access to finance for SMEs. She is in charge, amongst others, of issues related to start-up and scale-up financing, the implementation of financial instruments of the EU investment programme InvestEU (debt and equity), and gender issues in financing. During her 15 years in the European Commission, she held various positions related to the EU support for SME and competitiveness of industrial sectors (including textiles, clothing and creative industries), as well as in the area of competition law.