Commissioner for Development
The Development Commissioner is a member of the European Commission . The Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development reports to him . The department has existed since the European Economic Community was founded in 1958, initially under the name Overseas Development . From 1970 to 1973 there was no commissioner, in 1973 the department was re-established under the new name of Development and Humanitarian Aid . When the Barroso II Commission took office in February 2010, the area of humanitarian aid and crisis protection was outsourced to a separate department.
In the Von der Leyen Commission , the office is called International Partnership . The commissioner is Jutta Urpilainen .
Previous incumbent
Commissioner | Term of office | Country | national party | political direction / European party |
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Jutta Urpilainen | since 2019 | Finland | SDP | SPE |
Neven Mimica | 2014-2019 | Croatia | SDP | SPE |
Andris Piebalgs | 2010-2014 | Latvia | LC | ELDR |
Karel De Gucht | 2009-2010 | Belgium | Open VLD | ELDR |
Louis Michel | 2004-2009 | Belgium | MR | ELDR |
Poul Nielson | 1999-2004 | Denmark | S. | SPE |
João de Deus Pinheiro | 1995-1999 | Portugal | Psd | EPP |
Manuel Marín | 1989-1995 | Spain | PSOE | SPE |
Lorenzo Natali | 1985-1989 | Italy | DC | EPP |
Edgard Pisani | 1981-1985 | France | PS | SPE |
Claude Cheysson | 1973 - 1981 | France | PS | SPE |
Henri Rochereau | 1962 - 1970 | France | independent | conservative |
Robert Lemaignen | 1958–1962 | France | independent | conservative |