Michael McGrath's team

Email: fiona.knab-lunny@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 60220

Responsibilities

• Overall strategic coordination/policy setting
• Management of the Cabinet
• Strategic inter-institutional issues (European Parliament, European Council, Council, Court of Justice)
• Relations with Cabinets of President and Executive Vice-President
• Senior staff matters
• HEBDO

Email: joachim.herrmann@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 54214

Responsibilities

• Deputise for the Head of Cabinet in her absence
• Inter-institutional relations and Group of Inter-institutional relations (GRI)
• Preparation of the General Affairs Council 
• Cluster Coordination with Executive Vice-President Virkkunnen 
• Preparation and coordination of Jour Fixe
• Management of cabinet’s support staff
• Rule of Law
• Relations with the Council of Europe
• European Convention on Human Rights

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Commission Work Programme
• European Semester
• Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN)
• DG BUDG where related to the rule of law
• Neighbourhood and Enlargement

Email: kevin.barrett@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 66098

Responsibilities

• EXCO
• Criminal Justice, including international criminal justice
• 28th Regime
• European Arrest Warrant
• EUROJUST and EPPO
• Anti-corruption
• Civil Law
• Coordination for the Justice Council

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• External Relations
• Internal Affairs and Migration
• Trade and Economic Security
• Transparency
• Anti-Fraud (OLAF)
• Mediterranean
• EU-UK relations

Email: simona.constantin@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 50615

Responsibilities

• Democracy
• European Democracy Shield
• Foreign information manipulation and interference and disinformation
• Fairness and integrity of elections, political parties
• Ethics
• Anti-SLAPP
• Citizenship, free movement

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Clean, just and competitive transition
• Competition
• Climate
• Energy and Housing
• Environment
• Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, including preparedness
• International partnerships

Email: maria.zafra-saura@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 87121

Responsibilities

• Ukraine (except justice reforms)
• Data protection (GDPR and international data flows)
• Fundamental Rights
• Relations with FRA
• Justice Funds

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Budget (non-Rule-of-Law aspects), MFF and Public Administration
• Tourism
• Culture
• Sport

Email: jordis.ferroli@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 92729

Responsibilities

• Communication strategy
• Social Media Strategy
• Relations with press
• Relations with the Spokespersons' Service
• European Media Freedom Act implementation

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Infringements
• Agriculture and Food
• Health
• Cohesion and Reforms
• Media Literacy

Email: egelyn.braun@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 21765

Responsibilities

• Consumer Protection
• Company Law 
• Digital Fairness Act
• Consumer enforcement and redress (Consumer Enforcement Initiative, ADR) 
• Digital Technologies, AI

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Digital (CNECT)
• Competitiveness
• Single Market (Digital)

Email: lucie.rousselle@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 91376

Responsibilities

• Consumer Protection (notably Action Plan on Consumers in the Single Market)
• Product Safety
• E-commerce platforms 
• Package Travel Directive
•  Sustainable consumption 
• Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Single market (green, including circular economy, excl. digital)
• Industrial Strategy
• Transport and Tourism 
• Fisheries and Oceans

Email: cedric.bourlier@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 13464

Responsibilities

• Relations with European Parliament
• Relations with National Parliaments
• Relations with the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee
• Relations with the European Ombudsman
• Youth Platform
• European Ombudsman

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Equality and non-discrimination
• Education
• Intergenerational Fairness
• Youth
• People, skills and preparedness

Email: laetitia.close@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 67073

Responsibilities

• Communications (with Communications Adviser)
• Rule of Law
• Civil Society Platform
• Hybrid and cyber

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

• Defence 
• Financial Services
• Taxation

Email: bernie.kilcoyne@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 67126

Email: judit.szarka@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 84397

Responsibilities

• Cabinet Budget
• Trainees recruitment
• Training coordinator
• HR contact point
• Transparency and Business Continuity

Email: esther.rico-donovan@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 87488

Responsibilities

• Ethics Contact point
• Local Security Officer
• Digital Ambassador

Email: fiona.pitt@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 60057

Responsibilities

• Commissioner’s MIPS and administration
• Atmos contact point

Email: petra.pavicic@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 51922