Sir Jonathan Michael Howard Faull

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(born 20 August 1954 in Chatham, Kent) is a former British official in the

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Biography

He joined the

in 1978, becoming Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010. He was Director-General of Internal Market and Services Directorate-General from 2010 to 2015. In the first half – Director-General for the

Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union The Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) is a Directorate-General (DG) of the European Commission. It is one of the thirty three DG's that are created and named to reflect their func ...

which was formed from the DG Internal Market and Services Directorate-General. On 24 June 2015, the European Commission announced that he would become the Director-General of a to-be-created "Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum" as of 1 September 2015. He studied law at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

and has an MA from the

College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...

in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the

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Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Free University of Brussels since 1989. He is a visiting professor at King’s College London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Faull was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.

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