Managing Director (EU-side) of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, and Minister Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Union to Japan since 2022. He has worked for the last 20 years for the European Commission on financial planning, employment policies, Internal market policies and on international dimension of European industrial policies. Before joining the European Commission, he has worked as economist in private consultancy business and research institutes. He holds a double master degree in Economics and Management.