Kurt Vandenberghe has been named head of the cabinet of Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Research and Development. Previously, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet in charge of coordinating the research area and the research framework programmes. Mr Vandenberghe joined the European Commission in 1996 as co-ordinator of the Commission’s Intermodal Transport Task Force and of the Transport Research Programme. Before that, he was a member of the cabinet of European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin. He worked for four years as manager at Ernst & Young Association Management.

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