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Ilze Juhansone

Ilze Juhansone

Latvian diplomat and civil servant

Ilze Juhansone (born 1971) is the Secretary-General of the European Commission. She is a European civil servant and former Latvian diplomat.[1][2]

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In August 2019, she became the acting Secretary-General pending the search for a full-time successor to Germany's Martin Selmayr.[3][4] Following the period as acting, she was appointed Secretary-General on 14 January 2020.[5] She was previously Deputy Secretary-General of the commission for interinstitutional and external relations from 2015 until 2019, since October 2015, and before that had been Permanent Representative of Latvia to the European Union from 2011 to 2015 during its Council Presidency. This was preceded by having been Director General for EU Affairs at the Latvian Foreign Ministry between 2008 and 2011.[1]

While Permanent Representative of Latvia, she was awarded the Order of the Three Stars, 3rd class.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Deputy Secretary-General Ilze Juhansone - Biography". European Commission. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
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    "The Commission's deputy squad". politico.eu. Politico. 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
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    "Juhansone appointed European Commission's acting secretary-general". eng.lsm.lv. Public Broadcasting of Latvia. LETA. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  4. [4]
    Kostaki, Irene (25 July 2019). "Ilze Juhansone to serve as interim EU Secretary General". New Europe. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Ilze Juhansone appointed as the Commission's new Secretary-General today". Press Corner (European Commission). Retrieved 2022-06-04.
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