Françoise Le Bail
Position: Deputy Director General & SME Envoy, DG Enterprise, European Commisson
Françoise Le Bail, lawyer by training and a European civil servant by career, is Deputy Director General and Commission’s SME Envoy at DG Enterprise and Industry since January 2006. She started in the European Commission’s External Relations Directorate General dealing with textiles negotiations and ASEAN countries. She then served as spokesperson for External Relations Commissioner Willy De Clercq and as a Member and then Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Christiane Scrivener, responsible for taxation and customs. Françoise Le Bail returned to External Relations and subsequently joined the Directorate General for Trade where she was appointed Director in charge of general affairs and of bilateral trade relations with Russia, CIS countries, the Balkans. From November 2004 to November 2005, Françoise Le Bail was European Commission Chief Spokesperson. Françoise Le Bail holds a doctorate in law and a degree in political science.
Will participate to
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SMEs: Engines for Recovery?
Wednesday 30 June 10 - 09:30 am to 10:45 am
Moderator : Christophe Leclercq, Founder & Publisher, EurActiv.com
Speakers : Christian Mandl, Chairman, Maporama Solutions - Françoise Le Bail , Deputy Director General & SME Envoy, DG Enterprise, European Commisson - Hugh Morgan-Williams, Chair, BUSINESSEUROPE SME committee - Richard Pelly, Chief Executive, European Investment Fund - Tuomo Tuikka, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland