Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea
Director
Directorate D - Implementation, Governance & Semester
DG Environment
European Commission
Belgium

Biography
Since January 2014 he is director in charge of enforcement, cohesion and the European Semester, in the European Commission's Directorate General for Environment. Before that he was director for Equality in the Directorate-General for Justice since April 2011, in charge of equality and fight against discrimination, after having been director for Fundamental Rights and EU Citizenship within the same DG and in DG Justice, Freedom and Security since June 2009. He joined the European Commission in 2009. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Illinois (US) and a Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest (RO).