Luc Véron

About

• 35+ years of European and international experience • Advice, communication, negotiation and conflict resolution

Experience

• Mediator at Federale Bemiddelingscommissie - Commission fédérale de médiation
  Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  Médiateur agréé par la Commission fédérale de médiation (Belgium) Member of the Belgian Union of Professional Mediators (UBMP) Family mediation

• European External Action Service (4 yrs 6 mos)
  • Advisor Budget and Human Resources
    Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 9 mos

  • Ambassador of the European Union to the Philippines
    Dec 2020 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• European External Action Service (9 yrs 8 mos)
  • Head of Selection and Recruitment
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs

    Lead the team of 30 professionals in charge of the selecting, hiring and posting EEAS personnel (2700 staff members), at Headquarters or at EU diplomatic missions around the world, for management or non-management positions: officials, temporary agents, contract agents, seconded national experts (both civilian and military), junior professionals, trainees.

  • Head of Division "Local Agents"
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Lead the team of professionals supporting the 140 EU diplomatic missions in recruiting, setting the rights & obligations and providing compensation, pension and health insurance for the 3000 local staff whom the EU employs worldwide.

  • Deputy Head of Central Asia Division
    Nov 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • EU bilateral relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan • Regional Strategy: EU-Central Asia Strategy for a New Partnership (2007) • EU-Central Asia Ministerial Meetings • Security, incl. EU-Central Asia High Level Security Dialogue

• Alternate Permanent Observer (European Union) at Organization of American States
  Sep 2007 - Aug 2012 · 5 yrs

  Representing the European Union at the Permanent Council and Annual General Assembly (San Pedro Sula, Lima, San Salvador)

• European Commission (21 yrs 2 mos)
  • Head of the Political Section, EU Delegation to the United States
    Aug 2007 - Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    US domestic politics, US foreign and security policy

  • Deputy Head of Unit "US and Canada", External Relations
    Mar 2002 - Aug 2007 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Relations of the EU with North American partners

  • Adviser, Private Office of Commissioner for External Relations
    Jan 2006 - Aug 2006 · 8 mos

    Mideast, Mediterranean and Transatlantic affairs