<p>DIRECTOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND TRADE, EUROCOMMERCE Since 2015, Director, Political Affairs and Trade at EuroCommerce, representing retail and wholesale in Europe. He has long experience as a senior government official and diplomat, as well as in political lobbying and communications. He is responsible at EuroCommerce for relations with political stakeholders in Brussels, setting the organisation’s overall political and lobbying strategy. He also oversees communications and work on international trade and taxation. Previously he was a Partner at Brunswick LLP, a public affairs agency in Brussels; Head of political affairs at the energy company RWE in Brussels; Director, Prime Minister’s European and Global Issues Secretariat, Cabinet Office, London; Director (Europe), Department of Trade and Industry, London; UK Permanent Representative to WTO, Geneva; Director; EU Internal Market, Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI), London; Director, International Communications Policy, DTI. He was Chairman, WTO Negotiations on Basic Telecoms Services (1994-97). Created Companion of Order of St Michael and St George 1997. Studied Modern Languages University of Exeter, UK; Universität Kiel, Germany; Universität Regensburg, Germany. Languages: English, German, French, Danish. </p>