I like to question how technologies

are reshaping societies and

what we can do about it!

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Work experience

- Policy assistant to the Director (2026 - present)

European Commission - AI Office

Right-hand of Lucilla Sioli, Director of the AI Office. Supporting the work on all the files of DG CNECT’s Directorate (6 teams / more than 150 colleagues). Focusing -in particular- on policy coordination, potential and concrete impacts of AI, frontier developments, implementation of the AI Act, and actual deployment of AI technologies in the EU.


- Policy and legal officer (2024 - 2026)

European Commission - AI Office A4

Lead member of the AI Office’s team in charge of AI innovation and policy coordination, steering the coordination of the work of the Commission on AI, of national AI strategies, and of private sectors’ supporting activities. Primary staff drafter of the AI Continent Action Plan and the Apply AI Strategy. Contributed directly to the consolidation of the European approach to AI policymaking.


- Policy and legal officer (2021 - 2024)

European Commission - CNECT A2

Strongly involved in the design, negotiation and implementation of the AI Act and the Chips Act. Responsible for steering the Commission's AI standardisation strategy, the implementation and follow-up to the Coordinated Plan on AI, and the coordination of national initiatives on AI and chips. Contributed directly to AI impact and monitoring analyses, economic analyses of EU strategic dependencies, and international negotiations on AI.


- Blue Book Trainee (2021)

European Commission - CNECT A2

Supporting all the work streams of the unit in charge of AI policymaking in the Commission.


- Data protection and information security consultant (2020 - 2021)

Brussels-Capital Region - CIRB

Responsible for overseeing the regional institutions' data protection strategies and their implementations to ensure security and compliance with national and European regulations.


- Researcher in economics (2019 - 2020)

KU Leuven

Researcher in applied economics exploring drivers and barriers to the adoption of Product-Service Systems in the EU.

Education

- Advanced master in human rights law

Université catholique de Louvain / Université Saint-Louis


- Specialised master in international economics

Université catholique de Louvain / Université de Namur


- Master in European studies

Université catholique de Louvain / Université Saint-Louis


- University certificate in digital and AI ethics

Université Libre de Bruxelles


- Bachelor in business engineering

Université catholique de Louvain

Other trainings received

- Doctum Colloquium in applied economics

KU Leuven


- Data analyst / Data scientist / Statistician with R

Datacamp

Selection of scientific and policy papers

- Measuring AI adoption in the European Union: Methodology and results for strategic sectors

Publications Office of the European Union, October 2026

(available here)


- L’utilisation de grands modèles de langage dans l’élaboration de politiques et règlementations européennes

End of study project, August 2026

(available upon request)


- The European approach to artificial intelligence policymaking

JRC Science for Policy Brief, April 2026

(available here)


- Advancing AI adoption in EU public administrations: Future directions and opportunities under the Apply AI Strategy

Publications Office of the European Union, April 2026

(available here)


- Progress in Implementing the European Union Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence (Volume 1)

OECD Report, November 2025

(available here)


- Advancing the measurement of investments in artificial intelligence

OECD Working Papers, September 2025

(available here)


- La protection des droits humains à l'ère de la numérisation de la société : analyse croisée de la Convention-cadre sur l’intelligence artificielle et de la Convention 108+

Working draft

(available upon request)


- Harmonised Standards for the European AI Act

JRC Science for Policy Brief, October 2024

(available here)


- Le droit international humanitaire et le recours à des systèmes d’intelligence artificielle d’aide à la prise de décision militaire

Master thesis, August 2024

(available upon request)


- Cybersecurity of artificial intelligence in the AI Act

JRC Science for Policy Report, September 2023

(available here)

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