David Galloway was born in Scotland in 1961 and joined the General Secretariat of the Council in 1986. In April 2010 he was appointed deputy director-general for security, safety and IT. He was previously director of the Private Office of the Council’s Secretary-General, Pierre de Boissieu. David was EU Fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995-1996, and from 1997 to 2002 was a visiting lecturer at the University of Auvergne, Clermond-Ferrand. He has published numerous books and articles on EU policies and history, the European Council and the Treaty of Nice.