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Ilze Juhansone (born 1971) is the
Secretary-General of the European Commission The Secretary-General of the European Commission is the senior civil servant of the European Commission. The Secretary-General, who is responsible to the President of the European Commission, is in charge of the various Directorates-General, h ...
. She is a European civil servant and former
Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
n diplomat. In August 2019, she became the acting Secretary-General pending the search for a full-time successor to Germany's
Martin Selmayr Martin Selmayr (born 5 December 1970) is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his ti ...
. Following the period as acting, she was appointed Secretary-General on 14 January 2020. She was previously Deputy Secretary-General of the commission for interinstitutional and external relations from 2015 until 2019, since October 2015, and before that had been Permanent Representative of Latvia to the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
from 2011 to 2015 during its Council Presidency. This was preceded by having been Director General for EU Affairs at the Latvian Foreign Ministry between 2008 and 2011. While Permanent Representative of Latvia, she was awarded the
Order of the Three Stars Order of the Three Stars ( lv, Triju Zvaigžņu ordenis) is the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvija ...
, 3rd class.


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1971 births Latvian women diplomats Living people European civil servants University of Latvia alumni {{Latvia-politician-stub