Dominique Ristori

Dominique Ristori, 2013.

Dominique Ristori is a French bureaucrat with the European Civil Service of the European Commission. Since January 2014 Ristori is director-general of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission.[1]

Career

In 1973 Ristori became a Bachelor of Law (Licencié en Droit) and gained a Certificate in International Studies from the University of Nice. In 1975 he became a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris.

Ristori entered the European Civil Service in 1978 when he became Assistant to the Director-General, Assistant to the Director at the Personnel and Administration Directorate-General (DG ADMIN). In 1990 he became Head of Division in charge of Transnational cooperation between SMEs at the Directorate-General for Enterprise Policy (DG ENTR). From May 1996 to December 1999 Ristori was the Director in charge of European Energy Policy at the Directorate-General for Energy (ENER). From January 2000 to July 2006 he was the Director in charge of General Affairs and Resources at the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (TREN).[2] From 2006 tot 2010 he was the European Commission's Deputy Director General for Energy and Transport,[3][4] in charge of nuclear energy policy.[5]

He was the Director General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (December 2010-December 2013).[6]

In January 2014 Ristori was appointed as the director-general of DG Energy, succeeding Phillip Lowe.

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