Head of Cabinet

Marc Vanheukelen

Phone (+32-2) 29 98502

Secretary: Mariana Václavová

Responsibilities

• General Coordination
• Preparation of Commission Meetings
• Relations with the Secretariat General (SG), Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA)
• Personnel Questions
• Advisory Group on Trade

Deputy Head of Cabinet

Frank Hoffmeister

Phone (+32-2) 29 93727

Secretary: Myriam Gonzalez Alonso

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) and dispute settlement
  • G-20
  • Trade and Environment
  • Agriculture and Geographic Indications
  • Trade Defense Instruments
  • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Public Procurement
• Geographic Attributions
  • Relations with Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal
• Collegiality
  • Agriculture
  • Groupe des Relations Interinstitutionelles (GRI)
  • Environment and climate

Members

Damien Levie

Phone (+32-2) 29 84402

Secretary: Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • EU 2020
  • Future of Trade Policy Communication
  • Intellectual Property including counterfeiting and origin markings
  • Investment and services
  • Rules of Origin
• Geographic attributions
  • Americas (including TEC)
  • Relations with France, Ireland
• Collegiality
  • Competition
  • Industrial Policy
  • Economic and monetary affairs
  • Budget
  • Financial Services

Elena Peresso

Phone (+32-2) 29 82532

Secretary: Anouk Mertens de Wilmars

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
  • Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
  • Trade and labour as well as other social questions
  • Trade and migration
  • Trade and development
  • Relations with the European Parliament
• Geographic Attributions
  • Africa
  • Middle East
  • Relations with Malta, Italy
• Collegiality
  • External relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), European External Action Service (EEAS)
  • Development
  • Humanitarian Aid and crisis management

Marjut Hannonen

Phone (+32-2) 29 61768

Secretary: Anouk Mertens de Wilmars

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
  • Biotech
  • Market access
  • Sectoral trade issues
  • Relations with the Council
  • Technical barriers to Trade
• Geographic Attributions
  • India
  • South East Asia
  • China and the rest of the Far East (including HED)
  • Australia – New Zealand
  • Relations with Sweden, Denmark, Finland
• Collegiality
  • Health and Consumers
  • Research and innovation
  • Administration

Vincent Stuer

Phone (+32-2) 29 57098

Secretary: Myriam Gonzalez Alonso

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • Dialogue with civil society
  • Trade in media and cultural goods and services
  • Speech writing and articles writing
  • Contacts with Belgian Press
• Geographic attributions
  • Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
  • Western Balkans and Turkey
  • Relations with Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
• Collegiality
  • Digital economy
  • Education, youth
  • Regional Policy
  • Enlargement
  • GRI

Catherine Bril

Phone (+32-2) 29 51220

Secretary: Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken

Responsibilities

• Thematic Attributions
  • Trade and Energy
  • Trade and raw materials
  • Relations with Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions and Court of Auditors
  • Relations with the Ombudsman
  • Access to Documents
• Geographic attributions
  • Russia
  • Eastern Partnership countries
  • Central Asia
  • Relations with Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Baltic Republics, Austria
• Collegiality
  • Administration
  • Energy
  • Employment and Social Affairs
  • Transport

Gerrit Spriet
Assistant

Phone (+32-2) 29 51537

Secretary: Florence Voets

Responsibilities

• Thematic attributions
  • Trade and security
  • Trade and Fisheries questions
• Geographic attributions
  • Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA)
  • Relations with Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria
• Collegiality
  • Internal Market
  • Home affairs
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Fisheries and Maritime Policy
  • Enterprise (except financial policy)
  • Infringements

Hearing officer

Dominique Avot

Phone (+32-2) 299 51 02

Assistant: Valérie Laurent-Caullery

Responsibilities

• The Hearing Officer is attached – for administrative purposes – to the Commissioner and acts independently on the requests from interested parties who participate in trade investigations.

Spokesperson

John Clancy

Phone (+32-2) 29 53773

Assistant: Viktorija Laurinaityte

Press officer

Helene Banner
Press officer

Phone (+32-2) 29 52407

Secretaries and Assistants

Ann De Lange
Secretary to the Commissioner

Phone (+32-2) 29 89333

Responsibilities

• Agenda

Odete Carrelo da Cunha
Secretary to the Commissioner

Phone (+32-2) 29 65159

Fax (+32-2) 29 80899

Responsibilities

• Missions

Florence Voets
Secretary to the Commissioner and Gerrit Spriet

Phone (+32-2) 29 50571

Responsibilities

• Agenda

Mariana Václavová
Secretary to Head of Cabinet

Phone (+32-2) 29 63070

Myriam Gonzalez Alonso
Secretary to Deputy Head of Cabinet and Vincent Stuer

Phone (+32-2) 29 96347

Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken
Secretary to Damien Levie and Cathy Bril

Phone (+32-2) 29 91376

Anouk Mertens de Wilmars
Secretary to Elena Peresso and Marjut Hannonen

Phone (+32-2) 29 52718

Felicitas Rohder
Assistant to John Clancy

Phone (+32-2) 292 14 11

Archives

Jan Van Den Bossche

Phone (+32-2) 29 53244

Marjaana Ojala

Phone (+32-2) 29 50854

Fax (+32-2) 29 21485