Anna Panagopoulou

Head of Cabinet -Commissioner Tzitzikostas, Sustainable Transport and Tourism

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • European Commission (10 yrs)
    • Head of Cabinet
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Director
      Apr 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Responsible for leading the developments of European Research Area and New European Innovation Agenda. Responsible for the planning and programming of parts of Horizon Europe programme: European Innovation Council and European Innovation Ecosystem, Spreading Excellence and ERA, Research Infrastructures and Open Science. R&D investments and reforms and synergies with national funding instruments

    • Director, Directorate J- DG Research and Innovation , Common Support Centre
      Jul 2016 - Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      The Common Support Centre is the resposible service in the European Commission for defining the providing the legal framework, the busineess processes and tools for the implementation, monitoring and dissemination of the European Research Programme H2020.

  • INEA - Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Department R-Programme Support and Resources
      May 2014 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Department R at INEA is responsible for providing legal, financial and IT services for programme implementation, HR and logistics. Responsible for the setting up of the new department for "programme support and resources" and establishing and supervising the tasks of 4 units (100 staff members and 10 IT) whose vocation is to provide overall programme coordination and professional and efficient support services and resources management

    • Head of Business Unit-T4 (R1)
      Jul 2009 - May 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Lead a team of 23 members ( lawyers, economists, evaluation managers and engineers) with the aim to support the overall management and implementation of the TEN-T programme. Unit Responsible for Legal advise, IT governance and tools, reporting and statistics, programme evaluation and communication.

  • European Commission (12 yrs 2 mos)
    • Principal Policy Officer
      Mar 2006 - Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      International Relations Officer-Coordination on International relations at DG Transport and Energy. Overall planning and analysis of EU external transport/energy policy, including drafting and preparation of Commission proposals. Overall co-ordination of DGTREN's position vis-à-vis International Financial Institutions (EBRD,World Bank, FEMIP)

    • Policy Officer for Trans-European Network Policy/Scientific Officer (DGTREN)
      Nov 2001 - Feb 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Develop, co-ordinate and monitor policies and activities related to the development of the Trans-European Transport Network

    • Scientific/Project Officer (DGTREN)
      Jul 1999 - Oct 2001 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      - Analysis and definition of the transport statistical and modeling needs for decision making - Co-operation with European Commission policy makers, transport stakeholders, Ministries of Transport and research institutes

  • IT and Telecommunicarions Engineer at Siemens (AG)
    Nov 1991 - May 1997 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    -Development of Test Automation strategies and tools for simulating traffic and testing the telecommunication System/Network (Programming languages used: C, C++) - Project Management of related projects

  • Software Engineer/Trainee at IBM
    Jan 1991 - Oct 1991 · 10 mos

    Software Engineer. Development of software packages and end-user applications for commercial financial applications (basically in joint projects between IBM-Hellas and IBM-USA). Use various software and software platforms.