Biography
Tatiana Fernández Sirera is Head of Economic Promotion at the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance. She coordinates the Research and Innovation Strategy for the Smart Specialisation of Catalonia (RIS3CAT) and other strategic and transformative projects. Before that, she worked for many years as an economic analyst and adviser on EU economic issues. She holds a PhD in European Integration and International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master of Economics - Europe from the University of Saarland and a Bachelor of Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her fields of interest and activity are: public policies for a more sustainable and inclusive society; transformative shared agendas; transformative innovation policy; collective impact and shared value initiatives; participatory monitoring systems focused on learning and on impact of public policies; smart specialisation strategies; responsible research and innovation; public procurement of innovation; experimentation in public policies; industrial transitions; systems thinking for social change.
