Jean-Luc Demarty

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Jean-Luc Demarty (born March 19, 1952 in Reims ) is a French EU official. From 2011 to May 2019 he was Director General Trade of the European Commission.

Demarty attended the École polytechnique in Paris from 1971 to 1974 and graduated as an engineer from the École Nationale du Génie Rural in 1976 .

From 1977 he worked in the French Ministry of Economics and Finance, most recently from 1985 to 1988 as head of the agriculture department. He then moved to the European Commission, initially in the cabinet of Commission President Jacques Delors until 1995 . He then worked in the Directorates General for Research (until 1998) and Agriculture (until 2010), most recently as their Director General from 2006. From 2011 he headed the General Directorate for Trade, and Sabine Weyand took over his position in June 2019 .

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  1. Key EU Brexit Negotiator Is Named Europe's Top Trade Bureaucrat . May 29, 2019 ( bloomberg.com [accessed June 26, 2019]).