Polona Cigoj is a Policy Officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). She is mainly involved in work on the InvestEU Portal - a platform designed to facilitate private financing for SMEs and startups - and in the general InvestEU communication activities. Polona entered the European institutions in 2021 as trainee at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), before moving to the European Commission in 2022. She holds a Master's degree in Business and Economics, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations.