My team

Commissioner Maria Damanaki's team

Commissioner Maria Damanaki and her team

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Head of Cabinet

Ms Themis CHRISTOPHIDOU

Tel.: +32 (0)2 299 35 75
BERL 9/110
Themis.CHRISTOPHIDOU@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Management and coordination
- Senior personnel

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Relations with the Secretariat General, the Legal Service, the Spokesperson's Service, the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA)
- Stages

Assistant: Mr Johannes SJÖSTRAND

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Deputy Head of Cabinet

Ms Maja KIRCHNER

Tel.: +32 (0)2 298 05 08
BERL 9/111
Maja.KIRCHNER@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Deputises for Head of Cabinet

- Fisheries policy : coordination

- Regions:
* Atlantic, Outermost Regions and Arctic fisheries
* Baltic Sea, North Sea and landlocked Member States fisheries
* Black sea region fisheries

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Agriculture and rural development

Assistant: Ms Patricia BESTGEN

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Members of Cabinet

Mr Andreas PAPACONSTANTINOU

Tel.: +32 (0)2 298 20 08
BERL 9/127
Andreas.PAPACONSTANTINOU@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- External dimension of Fisheries Policy
- Arctic Policy (in coordination with Y.Auffret)

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- External Relations
- Trade
- Enlargement
- Neighbourhood policy
- Development Cooperation
- International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis response

Assistant: Ms Stella (Styliani) CONTOUDIS

Mr Yves AUFFRET

Tel.: +32 (0)2 295 09 31
BERL 9/133
Yves.AUFFRET@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Integrated Maritime Policy

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Mobility and Transport
- Energy

Assistant: Ms Stella (Styliani) CONTOUDIS

Mr Dimitri GIOTAKOS

Tel.: +32 (0)2 295 44 74
BERL 9/120
Dimitri.GIOTAKOS@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Structrural policy (including Fund)
- Economic analyses
- Court of Auditors
- Audit and anti-fraud
- Mediterranean policy

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Europe 2020
- Budget
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Regional Policy
- Emplyment, Social Affairs, Inclusion

Assistant: Ms Panagiota STYLIANOU

Mr Harold NYSSENS

Tel.: +32 (0)2 296 87 02
BERL 9/139
Harold.Nyssens@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Aquaculture
- Control issues (including European Fisheries Control Agency)
- Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated (IUU) Fisheries

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Internal Market and Services
- Taxation and Customs Union
- Environment
- Climate change
- Competition
- Infringements (in coordination with D.Giotakos)

Assistant: Ms Laure LALANNE

Mr András G. INOTAI

Tel.: +32 (0)2 298 50 42
BERL 9/119
Andras.Inotai@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Institutional Issues and Affairs: GRI
- Relations with the European Parliament and National Parliaments
- Relations with Committee of the Regions, European Economic and Social Committee, Ombudsman

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Justice, Fundamental Rights, Citizenship
- Home Affairs

Assistant: Ms Laure LALANNE

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Policy Assistants

Ms Iris PETSA

Tel.: +32 (0)2 299 33 21
BERL 9/126
Iris.Petsa@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Evaluation policy
- Annual programming

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Information Society and Media
- Climate Action
- Education and Culture
- Multilinguism
- Equal opportunities
- Human Resources

Mr Michele SOCCO

Tel.: +32 (0)2 298 48 21
BERL 9/124
Michele.SOCCO@ec.europa.eu

Responsibilities:

- Maritime Tourism
- Communication strategy (in coordination with Spokesperson)
-Mediterranean (Fisheries & Maritime policy - in coordination with D.Giotakos)
- Social media
- Website

Responsibilities outside the portfolio:

- Enterprise and Industry
- Health and Consumer Protection
- Research and innovation
- Communication
- Local Security Officer

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