Christine ROGER
- Visiting professor, European Political and Governance Studies Department
Since July 2015, Christine Roger is Director General for Justice and Home Affairs for the Council of the European Union (Secretariat General), after having served two years as Director for Home Affairs in the Council.
Her responsibilities cover inter alia European Union policies on migration and asylum, security, rule of law and data protection.
From 2009 to 2013, she was Director for Communication for the Council of the European Union and the European Council.
Before joining the Council in 2009, Christine Roger was France's Ambassador to the European Union's Political and Security Committee, responsible for Foreign Policy, Security and Defence issues – another area where the interaction between national and EU competences is critically at play.
She was previously Adviser to the President of the European Commission Jacques Santer on trade and foreign policy issues (1996-1999) and Head of European Commissioner Michel Barnier's private office when he was responsible for Regional Policy and Institutional Affairs (1999-2004). In this capacity she contributed to the work of the European Convention on the reform of European Treaties on defence and security matters.
In 2007-2008, Christine Roger was a member of the commission instituted by the President of the French Republic to review France's defence and security policy.
She is a graduate from the French business school Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (hec) and from the Ecole nationale d'Administration (ena).
She started her diplomatic career with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs on security and disarmament matters while teaching at Sciences-Po Paris as associate professor for three years. She was then seconded to the aerospace company aerospatiale merged over the years to become Airbus SE.
Christine Roger is a co-author of 'National Leaders and the Making of Europe – key episodes in the life of the European Council' published by John Harper Publishing in 2015. She is a member of the board of the Poelaert Foundation for the restoration of Brussels' Palais de Justice.