Geraldine Mahieu

Géraldine Mahieu is Deputy Director-General in ECFIN, responsible for the Coordination of Economic Policies of Member States. Before as Director in DG ECFIN, she was in charge of the Directorate B “Investment, growth and structural reforms” with the mission to strengthen the analytical, policy-formulation and policy-implementation capacity of the European Commission. She has been in charge of the design and negotiations of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, adopted in February 2021 and responsible for its horizontal implementation within DG ECFIN. Her mandate as Director also included the implementation of the macroeconomic imbalance procedure and the development of macroeconomic models used for economic and fiscal surveillance. Before that, she was head of unit in DG REFORM, in charge of providing technical support in the areas of labour market, health care, education and other social issues to EU Member States. Before joining DG REFORM, she was the European Commission’s deputy mission chief on the Cypriot adjustment program. She also previously held the position of Senior Economist in the International Monetary Fund and holds a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain.