Damien Levie

Economic Security Adviser, DG TRADE & ECONOMIC SECURITY at European Commission

Speaker

Damien Levie is Economic Security Adviser focusing on policy tools and technological sectors. He previously headed different units in DG Trade & Economic Security, in the European Commission, in charge of FDI Screening, outbound investments, anti-coercion, trade sanctions, export controls, outbound investments, high tech sectors, evaluation of trade policy, and EU-North America relations.

He joined the European Commission in 2001, working on issues including merger control policy, advised two Commissioners on internal economic files while in their Cabinets. Damien was a senior EU trade diplomat (Minister Counsellor) in Washington DC from 2014 to 2018, and helped manage the economic relations with the USA under Presidents Obama and Trump (I). He was also the EU deputy-chief negotiator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the USA. Damien has law degrees from KU Leuven and the University of Chicago Law School and an Economics degree from UC Louvain. He was a lawyer at a major U.S. law firm from 1994 to 2001.