Hiddo Houben
 Head of Section (HoS)
 First Counselor
 Tel: 202-862-9525
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 hiddo.houben@ec.europa.eu

• Management 
• Overall policy coordination

 Assistants: Administrative
 support for the section

 Jocelyne Corderot
 Tel: 202-862-9527
 jocelyne.corderot@ec.europa.eu 

 Marie-Claude Volay-Larsen
 Tel: 202-862-9521
 marie-claude.volay-larsen@ec.europa.eu

 Seppo Nurmi
 Counselor
 Tel: 202-862-9587
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 seppo.nurmi@ec.europa.eu 

• Deputy to the HoS
• Coordination with EU Member States
• Coordination of Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) & regulatory issues
• Aircraft
• Outreach activities
• Geographic: ASEAN

• Doha Round coordination
• Services other than Financial Services
• Government procurement/Buy American
• Automobile industry
• Sanctions
• Taxation
• Geographic: China, Japan, Korea,

• Administrative support for the section

 Ben Harrison
 Senior Advisor
 Tel: 202-862-9594
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 benjamin.harrison@ec.europa.eu 

• Congress
• Trade & development
• Trade preferences & issues
• Trade & labor
• Geographic: North & South America, Africa 

 Nikoletta Nagy
 First Secretary
 Tel. 202-862-9516
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 nikoletta.nagy@ec.europa.eu 

• Market access & TBT
• High Level Regulatory Forum
• Trade & energy
• Trade & environment
• Fisheries
• Chemicals, textiles, footwear
• Geographic: EU candidate countries, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia

• Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC)
• Investment
• Financial Services
• Export Controls
• G20 coordination
• Coordination with European Parliament (EP)
• Geographic: India, North Africa, Middle East

 Dan Rotenberg 
 Counselor,
 Agricultural Affairs
 Tel: 202-862-9562
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 dan.rotenberg@ec.europa.eu

• Agriculture
• Trade related aspects of food safety
• Biofuels
• Geographical indications 

 Marie-Claude Volay-Larsen
 Assistant, Trade 
 Tel: 202-862-9521
 marie-claude.volay-larsen@ec.europa.eu 

• Adminstrative support for the section

 Sibylle Zitko
 Legal Advisor 
 Tel: 202-862-9500
 Fax: 202-429-1766
 sibylle.zitko@ec.europa.eu 

• Competition policy
• Trade defense instruments
• Intellectual property
• Legal issues
• Digital agenda
• Pharmaceuticals/
  medical devices

 VACANT
 Counselor, Digital Agenda/Information Society

 VACANT
Senior Advisor