Signe Ratso
Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation
European Commission
Signe Ratso is Deputy Director-General and a member of the Management Board of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. She is responsible for Innovation, Prosperity and International Cooperation Directorates and she is Chief negotiator for association policy on Horizon Europe.
She oversees some of the priority areas of the Commission in DG R&I such as the Human Frontier Science Program. Before joining DG R&I she worked in different senior management positions in
DG TRADE since 2006.
Signe Ratso has always been involved in international affairs. Before joining the Commission she worked as Deputy Secretary General (from 1994 to 2005) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia.
She has two University degrees from Tartu University in Estonia.ia.
Recent Events and Presentations
Transatlantic Innovation and Competitiveness: Europe’s New Agenda vs. the CHIPS and Science Act
Watch now for a high-level panel discussion featuring Signe Ratso, deputy director-general for research and innovation at the European Commission; Erwin Gianchandani, assistant director of NSF’s TIP Directorate; Meg Hardon of Infineon Technologies; and Paul Sweetman of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland.
Scaling Innovation: How the European Innovation Council Bolsters Europe’s Competitiveness
ITIF hosted an expert panel discussion featuring European Commission, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation, Signe Ratso, on the thinking and inspiration behind the European Innovation Council, how it will work in practice, and how it is expected to change the face of European innovation over the next decade.
