Ulla Hudina Kmetič has been working for the European Commission since 2003. During her first decade at the Commission, she was in then Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, later she joined the team at the Commission Representation in Slovenia as Deputy Head of Representation, working mostly on economic matters. Since 2021 she has been in her current role as Deputy Head of Unit for Access to Finance in Directorate-General for Internal Market, Entrepreneurship and SMEs; working among others on the InvestEU programme and sustainable finance.