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Team Members
Mr. Hiddo Houben
Deputy Head of Mission
Responsibilities: WTO matters; WTO Budget and Administration
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 77
E-mail: hiddo.houben@eeas.europa.eu
Deputy's Biography
Mr. Remco Vahl
Minister Counsellor
Responsibilities: Trade & Development (incl. CTD-SS, CTD regular), Trade, Debt & Finance, Aid for Trade, Trade & gender, Preferential Rules of Origin, Transfer of Technology, Reform: inclusiveness, labour, policy space for industrial development, Relations with ITC,
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 38
E-mail: Remco.Vahl@eeas.europa.eu
Mr. Americo BEVIGLIA ZAMPETTI
Minister Counsellor
Responsibilities: SPS issues
Telephone: +41 22 919 74 13
Mr. Davide Grespan
Minister Counsellor
Responsibilities: WTO Dispute Settlement, Reform: Legal matters
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 59
E-mail: Davide.GRESPAN@eeas.europa.eu
Mrs. Frauke Sommer
First Counsellor
Responsibilities: Trade Negotiations Committee & General Council, Council for Trade in Goods, Committee on Market Access, Information Technology Agreement, all tariff related issues, non-preferential Rules of Origin, Micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 31
E-mail: Frauke.SOMMER@eeas.europa.eu
Mr. Giulio Menato
First Counsellor
Responsibilities: Agriculture, State trading enterprises, Cotton
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 41
E-mail: Giulio.MENATO@eeas.europa.eu
Mrs. Kristina Grutschreiber
Counsellor
Responsibilities: Trade facilitation, Trade & environment, Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA), Civil Aircraft, General Council, Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC)
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 75
Mr. Martin Gajda
Counsellor
Responsibilities: Rules (Anti-Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguards), Fisheries Subsidies, Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Competition, Reform: industrial policy
Press relations & relations with the European Parliament and Website, X and LinkedIn
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 17
E-mail: martin.gajda@eeas.europa.eu
Mrs. Gintare Kemekliene
Counsellor
Responsibilities: Trade in Services, E-Commerce, Domestic Regulation, TRIMs
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 51
Mr. Victor GARCIA LOPEZ BERGES
Attaché
Responsibilities: WTO Dispute Settlement Body, Legal matters, Budget Committee
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 50
E-mail: Victor.GARCIA-LOPEZ-BERGES@eeas.europa.eu
Mrs. Marie-Pierre Nicora
Trade Officer
Responsibilities: Accessions, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Customs valuation, Import licensing, Pre-shipment inspection, Balance of Payments Committee (BOP), focal point for all issues related to Russia and CIS countries
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 43
Mrs. Hene Leht-Blight
Trade Officer
Responsibilities: Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB) (incl. monitoring reports), Government procurement, Investment Facilitation for Development
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 34
E-mail: hene.leht@eeas.europa.eu
Mrs. Patricia Lionti
Mrs. Alice Geigle
Mrs. Tania Cayon
Protocol & Social Events, Press & Information Assistant
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 14
E-mail: tania.cayon@eeas.europa.eu
Ms Eliane Barbaglia
Administration Section
Mr. Michele Lombardini
Head of Administration, Attaché
Telephone: +41 22 918 22 69
E-mail:Michele.LOMBARDINI@eeas.europa.eu