Paola Testori Coggi
Paola Testori Coggi has been Director-General in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumers since April 2010.
In July 2007, she became Deputy-Director-General for Health and Consumers with specific responsibility for food safety and animal health, inspections and scientific matters.
Since 2000, as director for the safety of the food chain, she has been responsible for the White Paper on food safety and the legislative action programme, as well as the management of emergencies.
She was previously advisor on consumer health in the Cabinet of Commissioner Emma Bonino, and worked on the definition of the new EU policy on consumer health after the food safety crisis.
Ms Testori Coggi joined the European Commission in 1983 in the Directorate-General for Environment where she worked until 1989 on the control of dangerous chemicals and industrial risks. She then served as the member responsible for the research programmes on life sciences, environment and energy in the Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Filippo Maria Pandolfi. She also worked in the EU Joint Research Centre where she was responsible for administrative coordination.
Paola Testori Coggi is a biologist with a Masters in Ecotoxicology from the University of Milan, Italy. In 2008, she received a Doctor Honoris Causa in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cluj, Romania.
