Alexandra Nikolakopoulou joined the European Commission in 2003. Nowadays, she serves as Head of Unit for 'Farm to Fork Strategy' in the Food sustainability, international relations Directorate. She has been leading and coordinating the work for the adoption the EU Farm to Fork Strategy. Her Unit  is coordinating the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy and is in charge of some of the main initiatives of the strategy such as the general framework for sustainable food systems and actions related to the reduction of food waste. Throughout her career in DG SANTE she has been dealing with issues relating to health claims, food supplements, foods for specific groups, food labelling and general food law, including the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of Food Information to Consumers and the new Transparency Regulation.

She graduated in law at the University of Athens and completed her DEA in European law at the University of Toulouse. After three years working for the legal Unit of the European Commission's Consumer Protection Directorate General, she joined EuroCommerce, the European Association of retail and wholesale companies, where she worked as a food law advisor.