Lívia Kránitz is a Lead Expert of the Social Research Department of the Sustainability Research Directorate of the AKI. Prior to joining AKI, she worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, where she was involved in innovation and research management for many years, participated in the development of the Hungarian Rural Development Programme (2014-2020), including the designing of the EIP measure, and was a founding member of the BIOEAST Initiative. She is currently involved in the implementation of several Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe research projects to support the development of the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS). She graduated at the Szent István University of Gödöllő.