Anne-Marie Sassen is Head of Unit of the “Programme Managers Office” of the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency established by the European Commission. She leads the EIC Programme Managers in their task to identify areas where Europe has a strong position to create disruptive innovations and to support companies in those areas to bring their deep tech innovations to the market.
Before that she was Acting Head of Unit of the "Digital Transformation of industrial ecosystems" unit in DG CONNECT, European Commission, which was setting up a network of European Digital Innovation Hubs to enable all companies and public sector organisations to benefit from digital technologies.
Anne-Marie also worked as project manager for Atos in Spain and researcher for TNO in the Netherlands. She studied Computer Science at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and received her PhD from the Technical University in Delft in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine interaction.