Marcus Cornaro
Deputy Director General, DG DEVCO I joined the European Commission in September 2000, and worked for 3 years in Brussels at the Headquarters of the Directorate-General for External Relations, first as a Counsellor involved in the reform of EU external assistance programmes and then as a Head of Unit covering the two largest programmes in Asia. I left for Vietnam in August 2003, where I was Head of Delegation for 4 years. Back in Brussels in July 2007, I was appointed Director for Europe, Southern Mediterranean, Middle-East and Neighbourhood Policy at the EuropeAid Office. Most recently, in August 2012, I was appointed Deputy Director-General responsible for Coordination of Directorates E, F, G and H (DGA.2) at DG DEVCO. These four Directorates cover the European Union's geographic programmes in Africa, Neighbourhood, Latin America and Asia - altogether over 10 bio€ per annum.
Notable contributions to capacity4dev.eu:
Groups:
- Public Group on Development Policy: South Africa at the European Development Days 2016
- Higher Education: Higher Education in South Africa - Interview with Ambassador Marcus Cornaro
- Global Health in EC Development Cooperation: Focus on Ebola
- Public Group on Economics, Public Finance and Budget Support: The Effectiveness of Budget Support in Mozambique - An Independent Evaluation (2005 – 2012)
- Public Group on Economics, Public Finance and Budget Support: Video Interviews: The Evaluation of Budget Support to South Africa
- Public Group on Gender: Good Practice in Promoting Women’s Reproductive Health and Rights at the Viseisei Sai Health Trust’s mobile clinic unit in Fiji – Video interview by Marcus Cornaro, EuropeAid Deputy Director General
- Public Group on Fragility and Crisis Situations: Orientation Course on Security, Fragility and Development in the Context of EU External Action
Projects:
- EU Mobile Labs Addressing the Ebola Outbreak: African Experts Manage European Mobile Laboratories - Lessons from the Field