Francesco Tonon Meggiolaro

He is a member of Commission’s directorate dealing with trade. Francesco has been involved in many of the EU’s most complex trade negotiations, including those with Russia dealing with oil and gas as well as those with countries in Latin America. While at Yale, he gave lectures on the EU’s trade policy and the growing trade and financial relationship between the EU and Russia and the EU’s growing energy dependence on oil and gas exports from Russia. He also taught a course on the EU for students in the M.A. in International Relations program.