Joost Korte

Joost Korte was appointed Director-General of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion on March 16, 2018.

Prior to this appointment, the Dutch national served as Deputy Director-General at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade, as well as at the Directorates-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and for Enlargement. Mr. Korte also worked for several years at the European Commission’s Secretariat-General as Director responsible for relations with the Council of Ministers. In addition, he gained extensive experience working in the cabinets of Sir Leon Brittan, Chris Patten and Danuta Hübner.

These various roles within the European institutions have given him an in-depth understanding of the European Union’s decision-making processes. Trained as a lawyer, Joost Korte joined the European Commission in 1991, after spending eight years teaching and conducting research in European law at the universities of Utrecht and Edinburgh.