David Pascal Dion

Background

About David Pascal Dion

David Pascal Dion has been acting Director for labour mobility and international affairs in the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion [DG EMPL] of the European Commission since August 2023. He has been head of the social security coordination unit in that Directorate since 2017, responsible notably to design and negotiate legislative initiatives and IT tools. He has also been, between September 2020 and March 2021, the head of the task force responsible for the preparation and adoption of the Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Before that, he was for three years the head of the unit responsible for social dialogue in DG EMPL and in that capacity responsible for the New Start for Social Dialogue launched by Presidency Juncker; and still before, he was for more than three years the head of the unit in charge of general coordination, strategic planning and inter-institutional relations in the same DG and notably responsible for the financial EaSI programme. Between 2008 and 2011, he had been the policy assistant of three successive Directors General of DG EMPL. David Pascal joined DG EMPL in 2007 to work on the Lisbon Strategy and the flexicurity file (notably for the flexicurity mission led by Commissioner Vladimir Spidla and president of the French Senate Gérard Larcher). David Pascal started his career in the Commission in 2004 in the Directorate General for Education and Culture where he wrote Communications and Staff Working Documents on human capital and the economics of education. Before joining the Commission, he did several internships in research institutions and international organisations (incl. OECD, ECB, WTO, UN, IMF, etc.). He has a master and a PhD in economics prepared at the universities of Paris Dauphine (France) and Mannheim (Germany) as well as a master in law and political science from the University of Paris Descartes and he has written several academic publications including a book on the European economic integration. He is a French national.