Marco Ceccarelli

Marco Ceccarelli is Programme Officer for the Microelectronics and Photonics Industry at the European Commission. He works on EU semiconductor industrial policy, with a focus on chip design and AI compute. He helped draft and negotiate the European Chips Act and now supports putting it into practice. He joined the Commission in 2017. Before that, he held managerial roles at Philips in the Netherlands and executive positions at high-tech SMEs, and he started his career as a research scientist. He holds an engineering degree in electronics from the University of Florence and an Executive MBA from ESSEC.