Minna Vuorio
Since May 2020, Minna Vuorio is the Director of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) and the Principal of the European School of Administration (EuSA). She is responsible for the smooth running of the Office and the School under the authority of the EPSO/EuSA Management Board.
A core part of Minna Vuorio’s 5-year mandate involves the transformation and modernisation of EPSO. The EU institutions aim to attract highly qualified, multilingual and geographically mobile professionals. Minna’s core task is to oversee the creation of a selection model that meets the institutions' need for a more balanced and flexible composition of EU’s workforce, reflecting the diversity of the European society it serves.
Minna’s career in EU institutions started shortly after her home country, Finland, joined the European Union on 1 January 1995. She worked for twenty-five years in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, starting out as a translator and reviser. In 2007, she became an open source analyst of the Joint Situation Centre which reported to Javier Solana, the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for EU Foreign Policy. In 2010, Minna returned to the Finnish language Unit as its Head and moved on for six months in 2016 as Head of the resources and translation support Unit. As of July 2016, she became the Director of Council’s LING1 Translation Service, including one operational and 12 language Units, with a total of about 450 staff.
Minna has three sons and is passionate about diversity, multilingualism and collaborative approaches to work.
Luís Loureiro de Amorim
Luís joined EPSO as Head of the Outreach & External Relations Unit in February 2022. He became an EU official in 2002.
Before EPSO, Luís worked for 19 years for the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. In the Council, Luís had a varied career, working with media affairs, intelligence reporting, crisis management, EU-Africa relations, IT, security, the Middle East, defense policy, and translation. Before joining the EU, he worked for several European NGOs in the fields of education, youth policy, youth volunteering, and philanthropy.
Luís’ vision for Outreach & External Relations underscores the importance of visual communication and storytelling, putting the accent on the human factor. Luís is fully committed to working in partnership with EPSO’s institutional clients and national stakeholders. Moreover, he firmly believes in the importance of attracting a more diverse talent pool to EU Careers.
Luís is proud of his Portuguese and Angolan heritage. Outside work, Luís enjoys reading and dancing. He is married to a Swede and the father of a teenage girl born in Chicago.
Anna Mitelman
Anna Mitelman joined the ‘EPSO family’ in January 2023, as Head of the European School of Administration (EuSA).
Anna has 10 years of experience managing Learning and Development (L&D) as Head of Unit for Human Resources (HR) in the European Committee of the Regions, where apart from L&D and talent management she was also responsible for many other HR fields such as Rights & Obligations, Medical and social service, traineeships and more.
She is committed to lifelong learning herself and is convinced that organisations that understand this and invest in L&D will always be one step ahead. Her vision for the School is to make sure that EuSA is, and always remains, a centre of innovation and excellence.
Anna lives with her husband and two teenage sons in Brussels.
Angela Heberling
Angela joined the Civil Service of the European Institutions in July 1993 in the department for the Environment in the European Commission. After two years, she moved on to more HR related issues and began her career in the Recruitment service of the European Commission - which was later to be integrated into what is now the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO). She has held a variety of positions within EPSO, from being a member of the Task Force responsible for the implementation of the EPSO Development Programme (EDP), Head of the Selection Management office in charge of monitoring all competitions and selections, Head of Unit for the e-Selection and Test development unit to her current post as Head of the Planning and Coordination Unit. In November 2020, she has also been appointed to deputise for the Director of EPSO.
Angela is married and has two children.
Antonio Friz
Tony’s professional career started in the private sector with four years in London, UK, followed by another four years in Arnhem, NL, working in the information management and retrieval industry. He then moved on to the public sector, joining the IT department of the European Commission’s ‘DG AGRI’ back in 1992, where he was entrusted with a portfolio of IT systems supporting the Common Agricultural Policy, and the assessment of Member States’ readiness with bovine tracking while the BSE (mad cow) disease was raging. After eight years at ‘DG AGRI’, Tony moved to the European Commission’s ‘DG HR’, joining their Recruitment service. This unit later merged into what is now the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), where Tony wore multiple hats related to resource management, especially in the IT area. Today, he leads proudly the Corporate services unit at EPSO, ensuring a robust back-office for the office’s critical activity.
Outside of work Tony is a family man, married with four children and proud of his four grandchildren.