Didier Seeuws

Didier Seeuws is, since February 2021, Director-General of DG GIP (Directorate-General for General and Institutional Policy) at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC), responsible for providing horizontal policy support both to the Council of the EU and its Presidency, and to the European Council and its President. It is in charge of relations with other EU institutions and of EU institutional matters in general and coordinates the GSC work on a number of cross-cutting and horizontal political matters, such as the Multiannual Financial Framework or the Future of Europe. It is also responsible for streamlining and harmonising working methods in policy work across the GSC.

Between June 2016 and February 2021, he was the Head of the Task Force on the UK of the General Secretariat of the Council and the permanent chair of the Working Party on Article 50 and Working Party on the UK, handling the process of UK withdrawal from the EU and the negotiation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).

Between December 2014 and June 2016, he was the Director for Transport, Telecom and Energy at the General Secretariat of the Council.

In 2011, he joined the cabinet of the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, first as special advisor and, as of 2012 until November 2014, as head of cabinet.

Prior to that, he was the Belgian Deputy Permanent Representative and was the chair of COREPER I during the Belgian Council Presidency in 2010.