Emilija Stojmenova

Emilija Stojmenova Duh is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, and former Minister of Digital Transformation of the Republic of Slovenia. Her work spans academia, public policy, and innovation, with a focus on digital transformation, interoperability, and the societal impact of emerging technologies. She currently chairs the informal expert group on the Next Generation European Interoperability Framework at DG DIGIT, contributing to the development of interoperability policies at the European level. Moreover, she is a member of ESIR, a high-level expert group that provides evidence-based policy advice to the European Commission on how to develop a forward-looking and transformative research and innovation policy. She is also Chair of ALLEA’s Task Force on Trust in Science, supporting initiatives that strengthen the relationship between science, policy, and society. 

As a researcher in digital transformation, I see every day how much depends on who controls the infrastructure, the data, the rules. As someone who has worked in policy, I know how rare it is to have a framework that protects both freedom and competitiveness. European research is that framework. We should invest in it like our future depends on it, because it does.