Natalia Manola is the co-founder of OPIX, a data driven policy intelligence consulting firm. She also serves as the CEO of OpenAIRE AMKE (www.openaire.eu), a non-profit pan European e-Infrastructure supporting scholarly communication and open science in Europe. Natalia holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has worked for several years as a Software Engineer and Architect in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She has expertise in Science-Technology-Innovation policy implementation, with a focus on Open Science, having served in the EOSC Executive Board 2019-20, the Open Science Policy Platform (2016-17) and the EC’s Future Emerging Technology Advisory Group (2014-17) – the precursor of EIC.