Gaëlle Marion

Head of Unit for Environmental Sustainability, DG AGRI , European Commission

Gaëlle Marion is the Head of Unit for Environmental Sustainability in the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission.
Before that, she was the Head of Unit for Conception and consistency of rural development.
She has been involved in the development of the Common Agricultural Policy since 2007, both on rural development and farm income support, and horizontal aspects such as governance, delivery models and networking.
Her past career as Secretary General of Euromontana, a European association for the development of mountain areas, gave her in-depth expertise on territorial challenges, local development and interlinks between agriculture and the environment.
She is an agro-economist from Agro-ParisTech (1993), France.