Caroline Bedran has been Director General of AENEAS since 2017.
In this position, she is actively engaged in supporting the European Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) industry in its Research and Innovation endeavours. AENEAS fosters collaborative R&I within the European ECS industry and contributes to the creation of an effective funding landscape to support that goal.
AENEAS activities are based on 2 major funding instruments, the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU), a tri-partite partnership bringing together industry, the European Commission and Participating States, and the Eureka Cluster Xecs, catalysing collaborative R&I in micro and nanoelectronics-enabled systems and applications, in close partnership with national funding authorities.
Caroline Bedran has been active in the electronics and semiconductors industry for most of her career, primarily at Philips and NXP. She also has experience in the telecommunications and 5G industry at European and global level.
After graduating as an engineer in electronics, she was involved in RD&I activities, then further moved into collaborative projects and partnership management. She held different managerial positions in France and Belgium, finally taking responsibilities in Public Affairs at European level.
