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Ylva Johansson's team

Ylva Johansson's team supports her in her daily work.

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  • Head of Cabinet

Åsa Webber

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 50079
Competenze
  • Strategy, management and coordination of the Cabinet
  • Overall policy coordination
  • Senior personnel matters
  • Staff allocation
  • Hebdo
  • Deputy Head of Cabinet

Alexandra Cupsan-Catalin

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 92838
Competenze

Deputising for the Head of Cabinet

  • Legal Affairs
  • Anti-fraud / OLAF
  • Human Resources

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Coordination of the work on migration and asylum and the crisis response
  • Coordination of the Pact on migration and asylum: negotiations, implementation and new initiatives
  • Schengen, including Covid-19 response
  • European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
  • Overall Council coordination
  • Relations with the UK
  • Infringements
  • Relations with UNHCR

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Interinstitutional Relations Group (GRI)
  • Justice
  • Health
  • Member of Cabinet

Alice Brokelind

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 89029
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • External border management
  • Information systems for migration, borders and security including Advanced Passenger Information
  • European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA)
  • Migration and Security Funds
  • Preparation of College file
  • Audit
  • Relations with the Court of Auditors
  • Public relations and visitors group (with AH)

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • European Green Deal (with BS)
  • Transport, Energy and Climate Action
  • Rule of Law
  • Multiannual Financial Framework
  • Budgetary issues
  • Deputising for the Group for External Coordination (EXCO)
  • Competition – State aid – Antitrust – Merger
  • Internal Market
  • Research and innovation
  • Member of Cabinet

Raül Hernández Sagrera

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 58636
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Overall coordination of external dimension of migration and security
  • Partnerships with third countries
  • Coordination of external aspects related to Ukraine
  • Coordination on Afghanistan
  • External dimension of legal migration and visa policy
  • Resettlement and complementary legal pathways
  • Irregular migration and return policy
  • Readmission of irregular migrants, including visa mechanism
  • Relations with Turkey
  • External relations – Financial support
  • United Nations
  • Relations with IOM

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Group for External Coordination (EXCO)
  • A Stronger Europe in the World
  • Neighbourhood and Western Balkans 
  • International partnerships
  • Defence
  • Trade
  • Council of Europe
  • Personal assistant to the Commissioner

Adriana Haxhimustafa

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 95101
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Strategic communications
  • Transparency matters
  • Ethics
  • Access to documents
  • Communication and Relations with the Swedish press
  • Relations with the Ombudsman
  • Public relations and visitors group (with AB)

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • An Economy that works for People (with AGB)
  • Economic Governance, Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Taxation and Customs
  • Financial services and Capital Markets Union
  • Cohesion and reforms
  • Cabinet expert

Monika Maglione

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 80429
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Internal Security
  • European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)
  • European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL)
  • Counter-terrorism
  • Terrorism financing
  • Victims of terrorism
  • Organised crime
  • Child sexual abuse crime
  • Operational police cooperation
  • Passenger Name Record
  • Radicalisation
  • EU Internet Forum
  • Data retention, encryption
  • Research and innovation with focus on security research
  • Research Executive Agency (REA)

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Europe fit for the Digital Age
  • Hybrid threats
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Security Union
  • Deputising for the Interinstitutional Relations Group (GRI)
  • Member of Cabinet

Gosia Pearson

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 63473
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Anti-corruption, including in the context of the rule of law
  • Critical infrastructure
  • Confiscation and asset recovery
  • Financial crime
  • Trafficking in human beings
  • Firearms and explosives
  • Drugs policy
  • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
  • Cybercrime (European and international dimensions, all cybercrime areas)
  • Relations with the United States

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Cybersecurity
  • Crisis Management
  • European Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • Eurojust
  • Member of Cabinet

Morella Siemers (on maternity leave)

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 99044
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Negotiations on the Pact on Migration and Asylum (with ACC)
  • Legal migration
  • Integration
  • Asylum
  • European Union Asylum Agency (EU-AA)
  • Visa policy (with RHS)
  • Children strategy
  • Gender strategy
  • Relations with the European Parliament
  • Relations with national Parliaments
  • Coordination of Parliamentary Questions

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Consumers and Gender Equality
  • Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour mobility
  • Citizenship
  • Europe for Citizens
  • Member of Cabinet

Arvid Palmkvist (replacing Morella Siemers)

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 64163
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Negotiations on the Pact on Migration and Asylum (with ACC)
  • Legal migration
  • Integration
  • Asylum
  • European Union Asylum Agency (EU-AA)
  • Visa policy (with RHS)
  • Children strategy
  • Gender strategy
  • Relations with the European Parliament
  • Relations with national Parliaments
  • Coordination of Parliamentary Questions

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Consumers and Gender Equality
  • Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour mobility
  • Citizenship
  • Europe for Citizens
  • Member of Cabinet / Communication advisor

Brian Synnott

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 55800
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Communication Strategy
  • Relations with Media
  • Relations with SPP
  • Social Media
  • Audio-visual
  • Relations with Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • European Green Deal (with AB)
  • Democracy and Demography
  • Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  • Food safety, animal and plant health
  • Conference on the Future of Europe
  • Tackling online disinformation
  • Policy assistant

Ludovica Fabbri

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 59289
Competenze

Portfolio responsibilities:

  • Migration management, including implementation of Action Plans
  • Migration situational awareness
  • Task Force Migration Management
  • Ukraine displacement/Temporary Protection Directive implementation
  • Crisis response
  • Coordination of the JHA Councils

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Promoting our European Way of Life
  • Education, culture, youth and sports
  • Climate and Migration
  • Policy assistant

Sham Abdurahim

E-mail
Telefono
+32 2 29 98999
Competenze
  • General policy support on portfolio matters
  • Coordination of missions
  • Parliamentary Questions, Ombudsman, Petitions
  • Coordination of cross-cabinet briefings
  • Data Protection contact point

 

Non portfolio responsibilities:

  • Values and Transparency
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Ukraine – health/humanitarian dimension (with LF)
  • An Economy that works for People (with AH)
  • Rule of Law (with AB)
  • Driver

Ricardo Lamarti Andres

  • Driver

Dimitrios Akritidis