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DG ECHO (Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations) document lists directorates, units, and functional reporting lines. It identifies leadership roles including Director-General and Deputy Director-General, and assigns named responsibilities across areas such as strategy and international relations, prevention and preparedness capacity building, humanitarian aid policies and international humanitarian law, and emergency response coordination. It also includes programming, control and reporting, contingency planning and situational awareness, contracts and finance, IT solutions, legal affairs and security, and regional portfolios, with an effective date of 01/05/2026.

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DG ECHO leadership and structure

Strategy, international relations and interinstitutional relations

Prevention and preparedness capacity building

Humanitarian aid policies and international humanitarian law

Emergency response coordination, operations and capabilities

Programming, control, reporting and contingency planning

Contracts, finance and IT solutions

Legal affairs and security

Regional directorates and field network

Effective date

DG ECHO Directorate-General For European Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid Operations COMMISSIONER: HADJA LAHBIB DIRECTOR-GENERAL MACIEJ POPOWSKI DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL HANS DAS ECHO.B.1 STRATEGY, INTERNATIONAL AND INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS ARNAUD DUPONT JULIA MUELLER-HELLMANN ECHO.B.3 PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS CAPACITY BUILDING ERWAN MARTEIL GAETANO VIVO ECHO.C.3 SOUTH-WEST ASIA AND ARABIAN PENINSULA PATRICE LENORMAND VALENTINA DE BERNARDI ECHO.C.1 SOUTHEAST EUROPE, EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD AND CENTRAL ASIA KATARZYNA MARZEC PHILIPPE BARTHOLME ECHO.B.4 HUMANITARIAN AID POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ANNICK VILLAROSA CAROLINA LASSO-NAVARRO ECHO.D SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN, SOUTH, EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND PACIFIC ANDREA KOULAIMAH ECHO.D.1 WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA GIUSEPPE ANGELINI JULIEN BOUZON ECHO.D.2 EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA ANTOINE LEMASSON NICOLAS CUESTA SANTIAGO ECHO.E.2 PROGRAMMING, CONTROL AND REPORTING DOMINIQUE ALBERT RUI TARRAҪO-MARGALHA ECHO.A.2 CONTINGENCY PLANNING, ANALYSIS AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ANNA SAMSEL ALESSANDRO VALDAMBRINI ECHO.A.3 HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES LEONOR NIETO LEON CHRISTOPHE PATERON ECHO.E.3 CONTRACTS AND FINANCE JAN SEMPELS ANNA POSLUSZNA ECHO.E.5 IT SOLUTIONS MONIKA LANZENBERGER MICHEL BUCHER ECHO.A.1 EMERGENCY RESPONSE OPERATIONS MARIA ZUBER BORJA MIGUELEZ CABEZAS ECHO.B.2 CIVIL PROTECTION POLICY HANS ULRICH GOESSL CLAUDIA MILLER ECHO.C.2 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA GIOVANNI DI GIROLAMO BÉATRICE MIEGE ECHO.D.3 LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, SOUTH, EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND PACIFIC VALENTINA AURICCHIO SILVIA ERMINI ASSISTANT TO THE DG VIRGINIA BLANCO MON ECHO.E RESOURCES MIHELA ZUPANČIČ MAGOVAC ECHO.E.4 ECHO FIELD NETWORK SUSANNE MALLAUN WOJCIECH ANDRZEJCZAK ECHO.C NEIGHBOURHOOD, MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH-WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA HANS DAS, (ACTING) ECHO.A EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATION CENTRE MICHELA MATUELLA ECHO.01 COMMUNICATION, EVENTS AND BRIEFINGS ZACHARIAS GIAKOUMIS IVONA LERMAN ECHO HRC HR CORRESPONDENT Jelisaveta STANKOVIĆ-BAŃKA ASSISTANT TO THE DG ARTUR MALANTOWICZ ECHO.B STRATEGY AND POLICY HANNA JAHNS ECHO.A.4 CIVIL PROTECTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES MARCO PANIGALLI FRANCESCO PONTIROLIGOBBI ECHO.E.1 LEGAL AFFAIRS AND SECURITY FREDERIK SCHUTYSER CHARLES PIROTTE PRINCIPAL ADVISER SECURITY BERND ADOLPH ADVISER CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE JULIA STEWART-DAVID D D D D D D DEPUTY TO THE DIRECTOR DEPUTY HEAD OF UNIT FUNCTIONAL REPORTING LINE DATE OF EFFECT: 01/05/2026

FAQs

What organization does the document refer to?

The document refers to DG ECHO, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.

Which functional areas are covered?

It covers strategy and policy, prevention and preparedness, humanitarian aid policies and international humanitarian law, emergency response coordination, and operational support functions like programming, control and reporting.

When does the listed arrangement take effect?

The effective date shown is 01/05/2026.

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