EESC President

Team

The President's team

Amir Ghoreishi

Tel: +32 2 546 8986

Head of Cabinet

  • Management of the Cabinet
  • Strategy and HR
  • Interinstitutional and Stakeholder Relations
  • Relations with Groups and Secretariat General
 

Marajke Slomka 

Tel: +32 2 546 8957

+32 473 33 29 30

Spokesperson and Member of Cabinet

  • Communication and media activities of the President
  • Relations with the EESC Press Unit
  • Policy: media freedom and disinformation

Charles Manoury

Tel: +32 2 546 8136

Member of Cabinet

  • EU Enlargement (including Enlargement Candidate Members initiative, joint consultative committees, and civil society platforms)
  • International relations (relations with third countries and international organisations, trade, domestic advisory groups, follow-up committees)
  • Inter-institutional relations
  • Foresight, relation with think tanks and academia, EU treaties revision

Layla Reiter

Tel: +32 2 546 9368

Member of Cabinet

  • Youth engagement (implementation of the EU Youth Test, EESC Group on Youth, EESC Youth Delegates)
  • Agriculture, rural development, environment, and sustainable development ( European Green Deal, Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Transport, energy, infrastructure, information society, and services of general interest

Valentin Hillen

Tel: +32 2 546 8956

 

 

Member of Cabinet

  • Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (European Pillar of Social Rights, European Year of Skills, relations with the ILO)
  • Democracy and Fundamental Rights (within the EU and in enlargement countries, Defence of Democracy Package)
  • Involvement of citizens, relations with Civil Society Organisations, relations with National Economic and Social Councils.

Luís Nuno Barbosa e Silva

Tel: +32 2 546 8846

 

 

Member of Cabinet

  • Economic & Monetary Union, Economic & Social Cohesion and relations with sectorial institutions (e.g. OECD, IMF, World Bank)
  • European competitiveness, including single market, production and consumers
  • Consultative commission on industrial change (CCMI)
  • Gender balance and equality

Divin Mahame

Tel: +32 2 546 93 05

+32 475 999 224

 

 

Social Media Adviser to the President

  • Social Media (X, LinkedIn, Instagram)
  • Website (President's webpage)
  • Communication Strategy
  • Visual content development & coordination

Imke Van Hooijdonk

Tel: +32 2 546 9056

Personal Assistant to the President

  • Managing President's agenda & event participation
  • Coordination of briefings
  • Meeting authorisation requests (Agora)
  • Correspondence (Adonis)
 

Maria Cossu

Tel: +32 2 546 9219

 

Assistant to the Head of Cabinet

  • Assistance to the Head of Cabinet
  • Correspondence
  • Adonis
  • HR correspondent
  • Coordination with the EESC Protocol

Riccardo Casiraghi

Tel: +32 2 546 9930

 

Assistant – Communication and Internal Matters (covering for Gabriela Lind)

  • Support to the President and Vice-President responsible for Communication
  • Budgetary authorisation of meetings
  • Members' working conditions

Radu Gabriel Bujan

Tel: +32 2 546 8388

 

Assistant - Budget and Internal Matters

  • Support to the Vice-President responsible for Financial and Budgetary Affairs
  • Preparation of the Enlarged Presidency meetings
  • Cabinet's contact person for Bureau and Plenary meetings

Contact

Oliver Röpke European Economic and Social Committee rue Belliard/Belliardstraat
99-101 1040 Brussels Belgium

Tel (secretariat): +32 (0)2 546 99 32
Email (secretariat)

Media Contact

For press and media inquiries, please contact the President's Spokesperson
For photos of the President, please consult the EESC Media Library