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Stina Soewarta
Head of Cabinet
Stina Soewarta
Email
stina [dot] soewartaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 69870
Responsibilities
  • Management, strategy and coordination of the Cabinet
  • Personnel and administration
  • Coordination of work with the President and other Vice-Presidents
Michele Piergiovanni
Deputy Head of Cabinet
Michele Piergiovanni
Email
michele [dot] piergiovanniatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 86577
Responsibilities
  • Deputising for Head of Cabinet
  • Coordination of the work on industrial policy and competitiveness
  • Group of Inter-institutional Relations (GRI) 
  • Coordination with the Council 
  • Strategy and coordination of competition policy
    • European Competition Network
    • External relations in competition policy 
    • Relations with Hearing Officers
  • Country Coordinator: Italy
  • Cabinet Local Security Officer (LSO)
Werner Stengg
Cabinet Expert
Werner Stengg
Email
werner [dot] stenggatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 69159
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Copyright and Geoblocking
  • Ceative industries
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Standardisation policy
  • Skills and digital education
  • Digital sovereignty, including Quantum, HPC, Cloud & Edge, 5G/6G/OpenRAN cybersecurity
  • Online platform regulation and enforcement (Digital Services Act)
  • Preventing and countering disinformation
  • Telecoms and connectivity (with Liliane Karlinger)
  • Audiovisual and media services, including Media Freedom Act
  • E-privacy
  • Data policy, including Artificial intelligence and Metaverses
  • EGovernment, including digital identity
  • Coordination of TTE Council 

Strategy and coordination of Europe Fit for the Digital Age

  • Artificial Intelligence and data economy
  • Platform Economy
  • Disinformation
  • E-government
  • Digital skills
  • Media/ AVMSD
  • Internal Market: standards and intellectual property
  • Sustainability and the digital age
  • Telecommunication
  • Connected cars
  • 5G

Country Coordinator: Austria

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Education, skills, culture, youth and sport
Holm-Eiberg
Cabinet Expert - Communications Advisor
Christina Holm Eiberg
Email
christina [dot] holm-eibergatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 58207
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for communications and co-ordination of communication issues
  • Relations with SPP
  • Country coordinator: Denmark
Simon Genevaz
Member of Cabinet
Simon Genevaz
Email
simon [dot] genevazatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 91897
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Industrial policy (with Ramona Ianus and Thomas Woolfson)
  • Machinery and equipment (including common chargers)  (with Thomas Woolfson)
  • Construction (with Thomas Woolfson)
  • Single Market Enforcement and Infringements (with Thomas Woolfson)
  • Public procurement, including foreign subsidies
  • Automotive industry (including ROUTE 35) (with Ramona Ianus) 
  • Space and Defence (with Thomas Woolfson)

Cartels, antitrust and mergers

  • Antitrust and merger policy
  • Cartels
  • Financial services
  • Basic industries, manufacturing and agriculture
  • Health, Pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
  • Public access to documents
  • Foreign Subsidies Regulation 

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Justice and Consumers
  • Fundamental rights and the Rule of Law
  • Infringements (apart from state aid)
  • Financial stability, financial services and capital markets union 
  • Migration, home affairs and citizenship

Country Coordinator: Bulgaria, France, Hungary

Cabinet Data Protection Officer 

Liliane Karlinger
Member of Cabinet
Liliane Karlinger
Email
liliane [dot] karlingeratec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 51483
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Online platform regulation and enforcement (Digital Markets Act)
  • Telecoms and connectivity (with Werner Stengg) 

Antitrust and mergers

  • Antitrust and merger policy
  • Energy and environment
  • Digital economy
  • Digital taxation
  • Information, Communication and Media
  • Transport, post and other services
  • Relations with Chief Economist Team 

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Investment and competitiveness
  • Transport  
  • Economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs

Country Coordinator: Greece, Cyprus, Malta

Heloise Auplat
Member of Cabinet
Héloïse Auplat
Email
heloise [dot] auplatatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 51012
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Clean Tech Europe (with Ramona Ianus)
  • Batteries (including Alliance)
  • Solar photovoltaic (including Alliance)
  • Energy intensive industries
  • Clean hydrogen (including Alliance)
  • Alliance for zero emission aviation (with Ramona Ianus)

State aid and Enforcement

  • State aid policy
  • Energy and environment
  • Research, development and innovation aid
  • Information, communication and media

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Energy  
  • Better regulation

Country Coordinator: Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia

Ramona Ianus
Member of Cabinet
Ramona Ianus
Email
ramona [dot] ianusatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 93278
Responsibilities

Portfolio

  • SMEs and start-up policy
  • Industrial policy (with Simon Genevaz and Thomas Woolfson)
  • Clean Tech Europe (with Heloise Auplat)
  • Public interest services and concessions
  • Automotive industry (including ROUTE 35) (with Simon Genevaz)
  • Alliance for zero emission aviation (with Heloise Auplat)
  • Financial Instruments (including InvestEU) (with Andreea Ticheru) 

State aid and Enforcement

  • State aid policy
  • Risk capital aid
  • Financial services 
  • Restructuring aid
  • Fiscal aid
  • Transport (state aid)
  • Health and other services
  • Services of general economic interest
  • Regional aid
  • Enforcement and procedural framework
  • External relations in the field of state aid

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • European neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations
  • Trade 
  • Infringements (state aid)

Country Coordinator: Portugal, Romania

Thomas Woolfson
Member of Cabinet
Thomas Woolfson
Email
thomas [dot] woolfsonatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 94555
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Strategy and coordination of matters related to competitiveness, internal market, industrial policy & SME strategy
  • Functioning of the Single Market (goods, services, professional qualifications)
  • Industrial policy (with Simon Genevaz and Ramona Ianus)
  • EU industrial alliances on chips, cloud & edge, and launchers
  • Critical Raw Materials (including Alliance)
  • Machinery and equipment (including common chargers) (with Simon Genevaz)
  • Construction (with Simon Genevaz)
  • Single Market Enforcement and Infringements (with Simon Genevaz)
  • Competitiveness and resilience, including Sovereignty Fund (with Andreea Ticheru)
  • Resilience of the Single Market
  • Space and Defence (with Simon Genevaz)
  • EU Chips Act
  • Coordination of Competitiveness Council
  • Coordination of Defence and Space Councils

State aid and Enforcement

  • State aid policy and enforcement
  • Important projects of common European interest
  • Semiconductors aid
  • Agriculture and fisheries aid

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Agriculture and rural development  
  • Brexit and future relations with the UK
  • Next GenerationEU and Recovery & Resilience Facility (with Andreea Ticheru) 

Country Coordinator: Belgium, Finland

Andreea Ticheru
Member of Cabinet
Andreea Ticheru
Email
andreea [dot] ticheruatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 93154
Responsibilities

Portfolio

  • Research and innovation
  • Competitiveness and resilience, including Sovereignty Fund (with Thomas Woolfson)
  • Textiles (with Mette Dyrskjot)
  • Economic policy analysis, including economic analysis of ecosystems
  • Financial Instruments (including InvestEU) (with Ramona Ianus)
  • European Semester
  • Multiannual Financial Framework
  • Budget and spending programmes
  • Audit progress Committee

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Next GenerationEU and Recovery & Resilience Facility (with Thomas Woolfson)
  • Ukraine Facility
  • Economic governance review
  • Economic and financial affairs
  • International Financial Institutions

Country Coordinator: Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland

 Dyrskjøt
Member of Cabinet, Policy coordinator
Mette Dyrskjøt
Email
mette [dot] dyrskjotatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 90189
Responsibilities

Portfolio

  • Relations with European Parliament and Renew Europe Coordinator
  • Relations with national parliaments
  • Coordination of Commission presence in European Parliament
  • Coordination of Parliamentary Written Questions (with Clay Busia)
  • Textiles (with Andreea Ticheru)
  • Chemical policy
  • Circular economy
  • Collaborative economy
  • Cross-border activities of associations
  • Corporate sustainability due diligence and Forced labour
  • Tourism

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Employment, social affairs and labour mobility
  • Social Economy
  • Equality
  • Green deal (environment and climate)

Country Coordinator: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden

Hanna Zinner
Member of Cabinet
Hanna Zinner
Email
hanna [dot] zinneratec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 83855
Responsibilities

Portfolio

  •  External relations on digital, including Digital Partnerships 
    • EU-US Trade and Technology Council 
    • EU-India Trade and Technology Council
  • Digital and Development Cooperation, including Global Gateway 
  • EXCO 
  • Economic Security 
  • Foreign Direct Investment screening 
  • Cybersecurity 
  • Industrial aspects of health emergency preparedness (with Sofie Hovmand) 
  • Public Health (with Sofie Hovmand) 
  • Implementation of Digital Legislation 

Co-ordination with other Commission policy areas

  • Foreign affairs and security policy 
  • International co-operation & development 
  • Humanitarian aid & crisis management 
  • Coordination with the Secretariat General

Country Coordinator: Germany, Ireland

Paola D’Amécourt
Member of cabinet - Communications
Paola d’Amécourt
Email
paola [dot] d'amecourtatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 50066
Responsibilities
  • Speechwriting (outside competition)
  • Social media
  • Support to Communications Adviser
  • Administration of transparency register and EC website
  • Country Coordinator: Slovenia, Spain
Sofie Hovmand
Policy Assistant
Sofie Hovmand
Email
sofie [dot] hovmandatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 96176
Responsibilities
  • Industrial aspects of health emergency preparedness (with Hanna Zinner)
  • Public Health (with Hanna Zinner)
  • Relations with Danish stakeholders, think tanks, academics and civil society (visitors’ groups)
  • Citizens’ inquiries and citizens’ initiatives
  • Health (with Hanna Zinner)
  • Foresight, including intergenerational questions (with Hanna Zinner)
  • HR matters (with Clay Busia)
Johan Verly
Personal assistant to the Executive Vice-President
Johan Verly
Email
johan [dot] verlyatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 58422
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of the EVP’s calendar
  • Preparation of the EVP’s missions
Clay Busia
Assistant to the Head of Cabinet
Clay Busia
Email
clay [dot] busiaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 60813
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Administrative support
  • HR matters
  • Coordination of Parliamentary Written Questions (with Mette Dyrskjøt)
Manuela Massimi
Assistant to the Deputy Head of Cabinet
Manuela Massimi
Email
manuela [dot] massimiatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 64645
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Administrative support
Roxana Nica
Assistant to Werner Stengg and Andreea Ticheru
Roxana Nica
Email
roxana-mirela [dot] nicaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 81839
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Administrative support
Astrid Leborgne
Assistant to Ramona Ianus and Héloïse Auplat
Astrid Leborgne
Email
astrid [dot] leborgneatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 85730
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings 
  • Administrative support
Camacho Serna
Assistant to Simon Genevaz and Liliane Karlinger
Ines Camacho Serna
Email
ines [dot] camacho-sernaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 57325
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Administrative support
Katarina Dvorska
Assistant to Hanna Zinner
Katarina Dvorska
Email
katarina [dot] dvorskaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 96329
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Administrative support
Valeria Granata
Assistant to Thomas Woolfson
Valeria Granata
Email
valeria [dot] granataatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 75640
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Document management officer
Ewa Karpinska
Email
ewa [dot] karpinskaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 81547
Responsibilities
  • Archives and Documentation
  • Preparation of College file
  • Preparation of Hebdo file
  • Coordination of Special Chefs Meetings
  • Coordination legislative procedures
Alexandra Brasat
Document management officer
Alexandra Brasat
Email
alexandra [dot] brasatatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 67799
Responsibilities
  • Archives and Documentation
  • Preparation of College file
  • Preparation of Hebdo file
  • Coordination of Special Chefs Meetings
  • Coordination legislative procedures
  • Access to documents requests
Blue book trainee
Anna Thorndal
Email
anna [dot] thorndalatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 50700
Blue book trainee
Isabel Sousa Chaves
Email
isabel [dot] sousa-chavesatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 50333
National expert in Professional Training (NEPT)
Mikkel Boedker Dideriksen
Email
mikkel-boedker [dot] dideriksenatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 61676
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Driver
Eric Bellemans
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Driver
Marc Cornelis