Ferenc Marofka serves as a Policy Officer in the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission. In the Health Industrial Ecosystem team, he is tasked with integrating the competitiveness of the industry and the EU’s strategic autonomy for critical health products into all relevant policies. From 2020 to 2023, Ferenc held a position in the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), where he conducted economic analyses supporting the reform of the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation. During this period, he also assisted the Commission’s special task force on Covid-19 vaccines. Prior to his tenure at DG SANTE, he spent over eight years in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD), focusing on health innovation policy. Before his engagement at the Commission, he worked for the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries.