Victoria KalogirouProgramme Manager – EU policies / SNE on Interoperability in Public Services

Victoria Kalogirou is a Programme Manager for EU policies and a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics (Interoperability Unit – D2). She has substantial working experience in the area of eGovernment and eBusiness. In the Greek Ministry of Administrative Reform and eGovernance, she worked as ICT policy officer and ICT Programme Manager, where she collaborated with National and European public administrations and policy makers. She was also involved in – and coordinated – CIP and FP7 Large Scale Pilots, and participated in actions for implementation of digital government and innovation in the public sector from the Cabinet of the Minister and her Directorate, as an official. Victoria holds an M.Sc. in Technology Education and Digital Systems, eLearning track from the Department of Digital Systems University of Piraeus, Greece and a BSc. in Information Technology from the Hellenic Open University. Her MEng research – at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering University of the Aegean, Greece – focuses on the Interoperability in National Public Administration, Technologies and Management of Information and Communication Systems. Her research interests include, among other, eGovernment, interoperability, eLearning, digital transition in public administration and security awareness.