<p>Paula Pinho is Head of Unit at the Directorate-General Energy in the European Commission. She is responsible for Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy.<br />She has been previously Member of Cabinet of EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger both in his quality of Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society and during his mandate as EU Commissioner for Energy. She was then responsible for energy security and infrastructure and the overall coordination of the international dimension of energy policy.<br />As a member of the Cabinet, she has been involved in the trilateral gas talks between the EU, Russia and Ukraine. She has also been involved in the negotiations of the Southern Corridor and the EU negotiations with Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan regarding the Trans-Caspian pipeline.<br />While being Head of Unit responsible for Energy Strategy and Policy Coordination, Paula has coordinated the preparation and adoption of the "Clean Energy for all Europeans" package, adopted by the European Commission on 30 November 2016. Paula represented the Commission in the negotiations of the Commission Proposal for a Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union, which entered into force in Dec. 2018 and she was responsible notably for the overall coordination of the assessment of the national Energy and Climate Plans.<br />She was Acting Director for Energy Policy where she has overseen notably the work of international energy relations, financial instruments and inter-institutional relations.<br />Recently, she took over new functions in the Directorate of Green Transition and Energy System Integration and she is managing the unit responsible for Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy and the unit of Decarbonisation and Sustainability of Energy Sources.<br />Paula speaks fluently Portuguese, German, English and French, as well as Spanish and Italian.</p>