Silvia Merisio is Policy Officer in the Digital Economy and Skills unit in the European Commission’s Directorate-General CONNECT. She is contributing to the Commission’s work related to the impact of digitisation on the labour market and on the resulting changing skills needs. Her team also designs concrete actions to tackle the digital skills challenge. Silvia is a political scientist and previously worked in the Commission’s DG Employment on the implementation of the European Social Fund in Italy, Sweden and Denmark.