Brussels, 23 April 2024
On 23 April, the European Commission has decided to transfer in the interest of the service Simon Mordue to the function of Hors-Classe Adviser for the preparation and coordination of the Commission’s participation to the ‘Ukraine Peace Conference’ at the Commission’s Secretariat-General (SG). The Commission’s Secretariat-General is responsible for the overall coherence of the Commission’s work – both in shaping new policies, and in steering them through the other EU institutions.
Simon Mordue is currently on secondment as Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Council. Earlier in his career, he took on several senior management roles and was appointed Deputy Director-General for Migration at the Directorate-General Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), and prior to that, Director in Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) responsible for Strategy, Policy and Turkey. He also served in senior cabinet roles, being Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Verheugen and Head of Cabinet of Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbouring Policy, Štefan Füle. Mr Mordue also spent several years in external representation functions, most notably as Head of the EU Delegation in Kenya. He was also Head of the Cooperation section in the former Commission office in Romania, before moving to the EU Delegation to Turkey where he headed the financial cooperation sector. Simon Mordue joined the Commission in 1994.
Source – EU Commission