Dr. Marco Düerkop

Marco Düerkop works in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission in Brussels. He is currently assistant to the Deputy Director General in charge of multilateral trade policy, trade relations to Russia and Ukraine and trade defence policy. In his former positions in the Commission, he was member of the EU’s negotiating team in the current round of WTO trade negotiations and coordinator for WTO panel cases against EU trade defence measures. Before joining the Commission in 2001, he worked in the German Foreign Office in units dealing with NATO and UN affairs and was posted at the German Embassy in Athens as head of the Consular, Legal, and Protocol Department. He studied law at the University of Bayreuth and holds an LL.M. from the College of Europe in Bruges.

• EU Trade Policy