Dr. sc. Neven Drljević is a European official, since February 2020 the Head of the Software and Cloud Assets Management Service in the Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support (DG ITEC) of the European Parliament. Upon joining the Parliament's Secretariat in 2014, he had been in charge of the implementation of Software Asset Management (SAM) in the European Parliament, from initial market research to having a fully running SAM service. In 2020, with the establishment of the Software and Cloud Assets Management Service, the responsibilities regarding software and cloud procurement and contract management, licence agreement negotiations, FinOps and SAM have been consolidated into said Service, which he has been appointed to head. He is the Data Protection Correspondent for the Directorate for Infrastructure and Equipment in DG ITEC. Academically, he holds an PhD in Computing from the University of Zagreb.

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Contributing to the sustainability of European democracy and the European project by enabling the Members, Accredited Parliamentary Assistants and staff of the European Parliament to perform their duties with the ICT equipment, tools and solutions that they need, enabling the European Parliament to be one of the leading, if not the leading, parliamentary institutions in terms of the facilities and resilience, as evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doing so in an effective, efficient and economic manner, as befits the responsibility of being granted public funds to enable the functioning of the Institution.

The European Parliament is an important forum for political debate and decision-making at the EU level. The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically. Over the years and with subsequent changes in European treaties, the Parliament has acquired substantial legislative and budgetary powers that allow it to set, together with the representatives of the governments of the Member States in the Council, the direction in which the European project is heading. In doing so, the Parliament has sought to promote democracy and human rights – not only in Europe, but also throughout the world.