Szabolcs Székács currently leads a team in the Directorate-General for  Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) that supports various  European Commission initiatives around the digital transition of industry. 

He is a Hungarian economist, specialised in information management. He started his career in the private sector in various financial and IT development projects, before becoming a European Commission official in 2008. For the first years, he was responsible for managing the European Union’s ISA and ISA² Programmes (Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens), which aim at facilitating the efficient and effective electronic cross-border and cross-sector interaction between European public administrations, businesses and citizens. Since January 2017, he is working in the field of industrial policy at DG GROW, facilitating initiatives around industrial ecosystems, the digitalisation of industry and the uptake of advanced manufacturing in Europe.