Marco Lopriore is since 2007 an Senior Expert on EU Cohesion at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht. He carries out trainings on programming and implementation and coordinates the training framework contract with EC DG REGIO and contributes to the debate around innovation, result-orientation, synergies and simplification. Mr Lopriore was a project manager at Unioncamere (1995-2007), expert for the EC DG Information Society (1992-1995) and researcher at the Economic and Social Institute in Amsterdam (1992-1991).