Cabinet of Charles Michel

Head of Cabinet

Frédéric Bernard
Head of Cabinet
  • strategy, coordination, management of the Cabinet
  • European Council meetings
  • Sherpa G7
Sandrine Cazeils
Assistant

Sherpa

Frédéric Bernard
Sherpa
  • strategic support to the Head of Cabinet
  • coordination of European Council meetings
  • Sherpa network
Sandrine Cazeils
Assistant

Horizontal coordination

Simonetta Cook
Advisor
  • horizontal coordination
Tristan Aureau
Advisor
  • strategic agenda planning
  • horizontal coordination
  • Antici network
Elena Ursache
Assistant
  • correspondence of the Cabinet
  • briefings
  • European Council files

Europe in the World

Simon Mordue
Chief Foreign Policy Advisor
  • management of the Europe in the World team
  • coordination of external policies
  • European Council foreign affairs agenda
Irina Sivkova Drillet
Assistant
Luiza Bara
Advisor
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • sub-Saharan Africa
  • southern European neighbourhood policy
  • development, cooperation and humanitarian assistance
  • human rights
  • United Nations (UN)
Magdalena Grono
Advisor
  • Western Balkans
  • Eastern Partnership
  • Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
  • Russia
  • Turkey
  • Central Asia
  • Council of Europe, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
  • European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries
Martina Lodrant
Advisor
  • trade
  • Asia and Pacific
  • USA
  • Canada
  • security and defence, crisis management
Cibrán Fernández Silva
Advisor
  • Latin America and Caribbean
Tristan Aureau
Advisor
  • Relations with the United Kingdom

Prosperous Europe

Jean-Pierre Vidal
Chief Economic Advisor
  • management of the Prosperous Europe team
  • economic and monetary affairs
  • G20 and G7
Teresa Almeida Da Silva
Assistant
Christina Jordan
Economic advisor
  • Economic and Monetary Union deepening
  • taxation and customs
  • industrial strategy for investment, competitiveness and growth
  • G7
Rodolphe Ruggeri
Economic advisor
  • European Semester
  • macroeconomic developments
  • banking union and Capital Markets Union
Claudius Schmidt-Faber
Senior economic advisor
  • multiannual financial framework (MFF)
  • annual EU budget

Integrated and sustainable Europe

Rudy Volders
Chief of the Integrated Europe team
  • management of the Integrated Europe advisors team
  • internal market, Green Deal, digital
  • EU common policies except trade
  • administration, human resources, budget
Sylvie Glandier
Assistant
Simonetta Cook
Advisor
  • relations with the European Parliament
  • Digital Agenda
Oana Valceleanu
Advisor
  • internal market
  • energy and climate
  • Green Deal
Cibrán Fernández Silva
Advisor
  • employment and social affairs

Press and communications

Barend Leyts
Spokesperson of the President
  • coordination of press and communications team
Päivi Roybin
Assistant
Brian Kerstetter
Communications advisor
  • speeches, articles and social media

Private office

Jurek Kuczkiewicz
Strategic senior advisor for communications and media
  • communication strategy
  • communication with think tanks
  • academia, press
Bernard Jadot
Personal assistant
  • agenda and assistance to the President
  • personal correspondence of the President
Vanessa Jadoulle
Personal assistant
  • agenda, liaison with Protocol
  • European Council meetings
Yasmina Amire
Assistant
  • visits, summits and travels of the President

Administrative support

Amal Bergallou
Administrative assistant
  • all administrative issues, missions, logistics
Tiina Spijkerman
Archivist
  • incoming emails, letters
  • registration of documents