Nicola De Michelis

Nicola De Michelis is currently Director for Smart and Sustainable Development and Programme Implementation in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain, in the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy.

He joined the European Commission in 1996. He spent most of his career working on regional policies. In particular, he has been member of the team which prepared and negotiated the legislative and financial package of cohesion policy for the period 2007-2013. He was the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Johannes Hahn during his full mandate from 2009 until 2014, closely following the reform of cohesion policy for the period 2014-2020. At the end of 2014, he was appointed Director in DG REGIO with responsibility for the intervention of the structural funds in north Europe, for urban and territorial development, and for inclusive growth. From 2015 until 2018, he was the Head of the Cabinet of Corina Cretu.

Before joining the European Commission, he worked for four years in the Territorial Development service of the OECD on issues related to urban energy management, urban transport, and to the relation between information and communication technologies and territorial development.

Nicola De Michelis, has Italian nationality, holds a university degree in economics from the University of Modena (Italy). He is married and has two kids.