Daniel Calleja Crespo appointed as European Commission’s new Director-General for its Legal Service

The European Commission has appointed Daniel Calleja Crespo as Director-General of its Legal Service, succeeding Luis Romero Requena, who will retire on 30 June. Mr Calleja Crespo, a Spanish national, is currently Director-General of the DG for Environment, a position he has been occupying since 2015.

Mr Calleja Crespo joined the Commission in 1986 as a member of the Legal Service after having been Legal Adviser to Procter & Gamble. He has served directly under four different Commissioners, two of them as Head of Cabinet, and has also worked in the DG of Enterprise and Industry and as Director-General of the DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, among other positions.

He will assume his new position starting 15 July 2020.

Read the Daily News press release announcing his appointment here and access his CV here.