Hélène Chraye

Clean Energy Transition Unit - DG Research and Innovation, France

French State Civil Engineer by education, Hélène Chraye graduated then in Economics and Public Law at Sciences – Po / Paris.

After a stay in the French Administration to build the Energy Observatory and then on State Aids to the industry, Hélène Chraye joined the European Commission and worked successively on various domains of the European Transport policy: Inter-modality, Trans-European Networks, Single Sky, as well as dealing with enlargement and with Mediterranean area.

After a few years as Head of , Moldova and Ukraine, she joined DG RTD where she built the European Research Council Executive Agency and then managed financially and legally the EU programme NMBP, part of FP7 and H2020.

Since 1St June 2019, Hélène Chraye is heading the unit in charge of designing and implementing the European Research policy for Clean Energy Transition within the Directorate Clean Planet of Directorate General Research & Innovation.

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