EIT Management Team

Working closely together in the daily management of the EIT, the EIT Management Team consists of the EIT Director and the Heads of the four Units at the EIT:

  • Communications and Stakeholder Relations
  • Innovation Communities
  • Strategy and Impact 
  • Services and Finance

Alice FIŠER

Head of Communications and Stakeholder Relations

Alice Fišer is Head of Communications and Stakeholder Relations at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

Before joining the EIT, Alice spearheaded the creation of Corporate Communications for the UN Duty Station in Bonn, Germany. Prior to this, she headed the UN University’s Communications Section in Bonn.

Alice began her career in the Delegation of the European Commission in Prague. In this function, she was responsible for relations with civil society, academia and the Czech regions.

She then worked for a Member of the European Parliament as an adviser in the fields of regional policy, justice and home affairs, and for the European Commission as a Press and Communications Officer in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

Alice holds a PhD in Political Science from Augsburg University.

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Acting Head of Innovation Communities Unit

Dávid Tas is Acting Head of Innovation Communities Unit at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. His main responsibilities cover the management and coordination of grant implementation, operational processes and simplifications in interactions with the Innovation Communities. He joined the EIT in 2012 as Finance Officer, then became Head of Grant Assurance Section until being appointed Acting Head of Unit in May 2019.

Dávid began his career as an auditor at one of the Big4 firms, working on assignments at different clients in various business sectors.

Prior to joining the EIT, he had 10 years of experience managing projects funded by the EU and other international organisations. Firstly, he worked as an auditor in DG Agriculture and Rural Development at the European Commission, verifying compliance of expenditure with EU legislation and sound financial management in the Member States, with regard to one of the major EU budget lines.

Afterwards, he worked in different functions, among others, Head of Finance at the Financial Mechanism Office (part of the European Free Trade Association) in Brussels. In this role, he was involved in developing operational processes and overseeing projects funded by the EEA and Norway Grants, a multi-billion euro programme supporting different policy areas and a large variety of public and private stakeholders in 15 EU Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. He represented the interests of donor countries at several high-level negotiations with the beneficiary states.

Dávid holds an MSc in Business Administration from Corvinus University in Budapest and qualified as a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK.

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Head of Strategy and Impact Unit

Márton Herczeg is the Head of the Strategy and Impact Unit, leading several strategic initiatives and actions enhancing the impact of the EIT.

Márton joined the EIT in April 2016 as Programme Officer to manage the partnership between EIT Headquarters and EIT RawMaterials until being appointed Head of the newly created Strategy and Impact Unit from January 2018.

Prior to joining the EIT, Márton was Head of EU and International Consulting with the Copenhagen Resource Institute (now part of NIRAS Gruppen A/S) in Denmark for more than eight years, where he led teams involved in strategic planning and solutions for better policy applications for clients, including several European Commission Directorate Generals, the European Environment Agency, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and various Danish Ministries.

He began his carrier at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) as researcher and lecturer while also managing projects at non-governmental and private organisations..  

Márton has over 15 years of experience advising EU and national policymakers and other decision makers on science and evidence-based strategies, initiatives and policies on sustainable management of natural resources and waste, eco-innovation, resource efficiency and productivity. He also has eight years of experience as a university lecturer in environmental management and economics, environmental performance evaluation, and sustainable resource management.

He is author and co-author of more than 70 publications, including several analytical papers, policy reports and briefs, research reports, books and articles in professional journals.

Márton holds an MSc in Bioengineering and a PhD in Economics and Management from BME.

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Tzvetan ZAFIROV

Head of Services and Finance Unit

Tzvetan Zafirov has more than 20 years of professional experience at different managerial positions, both in international organizations as well as in the private sector.

Prior to joining EIT he was the Second Deputy Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Right (ODIHR) in Warsaw, Poland. Previously he has served for more than 13 years as the Deputy Director for Operations with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Lao PDR, Cyprus, the Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific in Sri Lanka, and Bulgaria. Before joining UNDP he has worked for more than 7 years in the banking and finance sector.

Tzvetan has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master's degree in International Economic Relations from the University for National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

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