Deputy Head, Ukraine Support Group, European Commission

A lawyer by education (Freiburg University), social policy advisor at the German Embassy in Warsaw (1990-95); after two more years at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs seconded to the EU Commission in Brussels to work on the 5th EU enlargement by Central and Eastern Europe countries; as of 2003 permanent EU official with the EU Commission, until 2012 deputy Head of Taskforce on Turkish Cypriot community, 2013-2019 Deputy Head of the unit in charge of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania, as of 2020 deputy Head of the Support Group for Ukraine (SGUA).