Dr Ramona Apostol

Coordinator innovation program on security and organised crime, Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands

Dr. Ramona Apostol is Senior Adviser Procurement Policy and Strategy at the Custodial Institutions Agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. In this role, she acts as chair of the committee for the legality of procurement procedures and as member of the innovation team. Previously, she has advised and has coordinated numerous procurements of innovation, performed by European and international consortia of public authorities. Between 2014-2020 she has contributed to the European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (eafip) initative of the European Commission as co-author of the Eafip Toolkit and adviser to the selected procurements of innovation selected from several European countries. Ramona holds a doctoral degree from Leiden University on the topic of pre-commercial procurement. As Honorary Research Fellow at Maastricht School of Management, she has conducted between 2017-2019 research and has lectured on various topics related to the legal and policy framework to innovation procurement.