Christos Ellinides is the Director-General of DG Translation. He is Chairman of the Management Board of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union and Chairman of the EMT Board (European Masters in Translation). He also leads the language industry expert group of the European Commission (LIND). Christos joined the Commission in 2006 as director for corporate digital solutions and services in the Directorate-General for Informatics, and was appointed later to the post of Deputy Director-General in DGT. Prior to this, for more than two decades, he was responsible for the introduction and effective use of information and communication technologies in various organisations operating mainly in Europe.
