Eileen Fuchs is Head of Division for Data Policy, Data Strategy and Open Data at the Federal Ministry of Interior and for Community. She and her team work on general data policy issues, i.a. data strategy and data governance, regulation on access to and re-use of government data, but have also set up a data laboratory for the Ministry and its agencies and are working on building an overarching data catalogue of the Federal Government. In addition, her division develops policy, regulation and practice of open data provision of Federal government data. Previously, Eileen was in charge of general digital policy issues, also on EU and international level, and developing digital skills. She has been working in government since 2008 in various positions and had the opportunity to experience its many facets: security, administrative modernization, better regulation as well as general policy coordination and strategy development. She is a trained lawyer and has a strong background in European Law, having worked as lecturer at the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland, Germany before entering the civil service.

Graduated as a landscape architect at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry Budpaest, obtained an MA degree in Urban History from the University of Leicester, and a PhD degree from Corvinus University. As a designer, he was involved in the preparation of regulatory and spatial planning plans, and the creation of a green network strategyes. Between 2012-2020, he coordinated the implementation of the AngelGREEN greenspace strategy of the 13th District of Budapest. Since 2020 he is the hed of the Greeninfrastructure Development Team at the newly established Landscape Architecture Department of Budapest City Municipality

The European Commission nominated Veronica Gaffey Director-General for Informatics (DG DIGIT) from 1st March 2022. This is the Commission department, which delivers high-performing digital services to support the Commission’s internal administration. It also provides services to other EU institutions and agencies, and to public authorities in the Member States to enhance their interoperability. From 2019 to 2022 Veronica was Chair of the independent Regulatory Scrutiny Board. This Board, which is independent of the Commission services and has no policy-making responsibilities, examines the evidence base of all impact assessments for new policy proposals and most evaluations. Veronica was Director of the Paymaster’s Office of the Commission from 2016 to 2019 and before that was Director of Resources in the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy in July 2015. Veronica Gaffey worked in the area of evaluation for 23 years of her career. She was Head of Evaluation in the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission from 2007 to 2015. She joined the Evaluation Unit in 2000 from the ESF Evaluation Unit based in the Ministry for Enterprise and Employment in Dublin, Ireland. There she managed the unit from its inception in 1992. Before that, she worked in the Ministry for Labour from 1986. Her academic background is the study of English literature.