Nicola de Michelis

Director of DG Regio at the European Commission

 

Nicola De Michelis is currently Director for Smart and Sustainable Development and Programme Implementation in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain, in the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy.

 

He joined the European Commission in 1996 and has spent most of his career working on regional policies. In particular, he has been a member of the team which prepared and negotiated the legislative and financial package of cohesion policy for the period 2007-2013.

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He was the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Johannes Hahn during his full mandate from 2009 until 2014, closely following the reform of cohesion policy for the period 2014-2020. At the end of 2014, he was appointed Director in DG REGIO. From 2015 until 2018, he was the Head of the Cabinet of Corina Cretu.

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Nicola de Michelis will be a speaker at the Opening (8th of June, 09:00h)