The Secretary-General of the European Commission is the senior

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

. The Secretary-General, who is responsible to the

President of the European Commission The president of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU). The President of the Commission leads a Cabinet of Commissioners, referred to as the College, collectively account ...

, is in charge of the various

Directorates-General Within the European Union, Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility, the equivalent of ministries at a national level. Most are headed by a European Commissioner, responsible for the general direction of the Dire ...

, headed by Directors-General. Their staff form the

Secretariat-General of the European Commission The Secretariat-General (SG) is a service department of the European Commission. The SG is based in the Berlaymont in Brussels (Belgium). The SG supports the whole of the Commission, and in particular the 27 Commissioners. The head of the SG is t ...

List of Secretaries-General of the European Commission

Émile Noël Émile Noël (Istanbul, 17 November 1922 - Viareggio, 24 August 1996) was a senior French European Union official. Biography Following his studies at the École Normale Supérieure, his first job was at the European Movement International. ...

, France, 1957–1987 *

David Williamson David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Vi ...

, United Kingdom, 1987–1997 *, The Netherlands, 1997–2000 * David O'Sullivan, Ireland, 2000–2005 *

Catherine Day Catherine Day (born 16 June 1954 in Mount Merrion, Dublin) is a former European civil servant from Ireland. Appointed in November 2005 as Secretary-General of the European Commission, she served two terms with President Jose Manuel Barroso and ...

, Ireland 2005–2015 *

Alexander Italianer Alexander Italianer (born 16 March 1956) is a retired European civil servant from the Netherlands who served as Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2015 to 2018. Biography Alexander Italianer was born in 1956 in London, United Ki ...

, Netherlands, 2015–2018 *

Martin Selmayr Martin Selmayr (born 5 December 1970) is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his ti ...

, Germany, 2018–2019 *

Ilze Juhansone Ilze Juhansone (born 1971) is the Secretary-General of the European Commission. She is a European civil servant and former Latvian diplomat. In August 2019, she became the acting Secretary-General pending the search for a full-time successor to ...

, Latvia, 2019–present

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List of Secretaries-General of the European Commission

See also

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