Sabine Weyand

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Sabine Weyand at the Munich Security Conference 2019

Sabine Weyand (* 1964 ) is a senior German civil servant in the European Union . Between October 2016 and May 2019 she was deputy of the EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in the Brexit negotiations between the EU and the United Kingdom . Since June 2019 she has headed the General Directorate for Trade .

Life

Sabine Weyand was born as the daughter of Heinrich Weyand (1927–2014) and his wife Magda (née Spurk, 1926–2016) in Saarland and grew up in the Körprich district of Nalbach . Her father was a surveying technician in the land surveying office of the Saarlouis district and a long-time mayor of Körprich or mayor for the CDU (1972-1989). Weyand is married to Peter M. Wagner, who works as the head of the Ukraine Support Group at the European Commission. Weyand's political commitment began in the CDU student union , where she also made contact with Peter Altmaier . From 1983 she studied political science , economics, English and linguistics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a diploma in 1990. From 1986 to 1987 she studied at the University of Cambridge . In 1991 she received a diploma in Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe and in 1995 she received her doctorate in political science from the University of Tübingen . The subject of the dissertation was the EU's common transport policy. In addition to German, she also speaks English and French.

career

From 1994 she was employed by the EU, initially in the General Directorate for Industry , where she dealt with the automotive industry outside of Europe. From 1997 to 1999 she was in the foreign relations department, where she also dealt with economic issues and helped prepare the G7 / G8 summits. From 1999 she was on the staff of the EU Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy . From 2004 to 2007 she headed the staff of the Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel . From 2007 to 2009 she was promoted to advisor to Commission President José Manuel Barroso's staff . Among other things, she was involved in international climate and energy negotiations. From 2009 to 2012 she was a representative of the EU Commission in the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States (Coreper I). From 2012 she was Director in the General Secretariat of the EU responsible for political coordination. She was also involved in international EU negotiations such as TTIP with the USA, CETA with Canada, with neighboring countries of the EU and the WTO .

In March 2016, she became Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Trade , responsible for units E (neighboring countries, USA and Canada), F (WTO, legal affairs and trade in goods), G (trade strategy and analysis, market access) and H (instruments of trade protection). She played an important role in shaping the EU's climate policy and in the preparation of G7 / G8 summits.

In 2016, Weyand became deputy to Michel Barniers , the EU's leading representative in the exit negotiations with the United Kingdom. According to Politico magazine , she is (since) one of the ten most influential women in Brussels. The negotiations between her and her British counterpart Oliver Robbins were also referred to as the “engine room” of the Brexit negotiations.

On May 29, 2019, Sabine Weyand was appointed as the new head of the General Directorate for Trade, replacing Jean-Luc Demarty on June 1, 2019 .

Fonts

  • The completion of the internal market in road haulage. Deficits in the decision-making process of the EU . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4411-3 (plus dissertation, Tübingen).
  • with Rudolf Hrbek : Subject: the Europe of the regions. Facts, problems, perspectives (=  Beck series . Volume 1085 ). Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37475-1 .
  • Inter-Regional Associations and the European Integration Process . In: Regional and Federal Studies . tape 6 , no. 2 , 1996, ISSN  1359-7566 , pp. 166-182 , doi : 10.1080 / 13597569608420974 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Weyand This German is dealing with the British on Brexit from ksta.de. Retrieved November 15, 2018
  2. ↑ https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/heinrich-weyand , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ http://www.saarland-biografien.de/frontend/php/result_detail.php?id=3498 , accessed on February 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/magda-weyand , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ Heinrich Weyand is dead. The Körprich local politician died at the age of 86. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. Local edition Saarlouis / Dillingen, March 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/pmwbxl?lang=de , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/magda-weyand , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Peter Wagner: NPD strongholds in Baden-Württemberg (=  Ordo Politicus Series . Volume 32 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1997, ISBN 3-428-48964-0 , ISSN  0474-3385 , p. 5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 3, 2019] dissertation).
  9. ↑ https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/politik_wirtschaft/die_architektin_des_brexit_deals100.html , accessed on March 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ EU Whoiswho: Deputy Director General responsible for Directorates E, F, G, and H (website) In: EU Whoiswho, Publications Office of the European Union . Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  11. ↑ Sabine Weyand. The Women who shape Brussels, Politico
  12. ↑ Sabine Weyand. In: Politico.eu. October 7, 2016, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Sabine Weyand - POLITICO Playbook Power List. In: Politico.eu. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Brexit Deal Helps Lock UK Into Customs Union the EU Wanted . November 14, 2018 ( bloomberg.com [accessed June 26, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Key EU Brexit Negotiator Is Named Europe's Top Trade Bureaucrat . May 29, 2019 (English, bloomberg.com [accessed June 26, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Weyand, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German EU official
DATE OF BIRTH 1964