Samira BOUSSETTA is an innovation and public procurement officer at the European Commission. After several years as director of public procurement in local authorities, then as head of legal affairs and innovative procurement in a central purchasing agency specialising in the health sector, then as head of the Innovation and SMEs Unit in the French State Procurement Directorate, she joined the European Commission in 2019 to help develop public procurement of innovation in Europe. She is passionate about innovation in the public sector.