IP/06/596
Brussels, 10 May 2006
Staff: Commission appoints Deputy Director-General for Competition Mrs Lowri EVANS was today appointed Deputy Director-General of the DG for Competition, with responsibility for state aid control. Her main tasks will be to ensure that the Directorate-General’s policy on state aid is in line with the Commission’s general objectives and to help develop European policies in the field of state aid. Mrs Evans will also have the job of liaising with the other Directorates-General on matters relating to state aid.
Mrs Evans, who is 48 years old and British, has spent most of her career at the European Commission, which she joined in 1983. Since December 2005 she has been acting Deputy Director-General with special responsibility for mergers within the Directorate-General for Competition. Since 2002 she has been Director responsible for antitrust rules and liberalisation and merger policies, in particular in the financial services and transport fields.
Before that, from 2000 to 2002, she was Head of Unit with responsibility for the distributive trades. In that post her main responsibilities were antitrust rules and the development of policies for the professions, sport, the environment, transport infrastructure and the distributive trades.
Mrs Evans previously worked in DG Employment, first from 1994 to 1996 as Head of Unit in charge of social protection and the elderly and then from 1996 to 2000 as Head of Unit in charge of planning and coordination in the field of employment and social policy. In 1993 she was a member of Commissioner Flynn’s Cabinet, where she had special responsibility for the free movement of workers and social security and also kept track of developments in state aid and competition.
Mrs Evans studied economics, accountancy and law and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. She will be taking up her new duties in a few weeks’ time.
