Axel Pougin de La Maisonneuve
European Commission/DEVCO
Deputy Head of Unit
Brussels
Axel de La Maisonneuve is Deputy Head of the Trade and Private Sector unit in the Directorate General for Development and International Cooperation (DEVCO) in the European Commission. He has worked since 1991 in the European Commission and has specialised in the development and trade nexus since 1999. He has been a geographical desk for Western Africa (1999-2002), the ACP countries (2006-2009) and Southern Africa (DG TRADE: 2014-2016). He was the Deputy Head of the Inter-institutional unit and Assistant to the Director-General of DG DEV in 2009-2010. He has been posted in Tanzania as Head of the Economic section in 2002-2006 and in South Africa as Head of the Political, Economic and Trade section (2010-2014).