Cyril Dewaleyne has been working for the European Commission in the past 20 years. He his currently posted at EC’s Headquarters – DG NEAR (Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Directorate General) since 2017. He is Team Leader for Connectivity, Climate Action and Environment in a Unit dealing with regional programs for the Southern Neighborhood (NEAR B2). His Team also monitors the deployment of financial instruments (EFSD+ blending and guarantees) with International Financial Institutions in this region.

Before that, he worked for 5 years at the EU Delegation to Lebanon on the Energy, Water and Transport sectors. He in particular contributed to designing and implementing EU’s response to the massive influx of Syrian refugees to Lebanon, especially on the water sector.

From 2007 to 2012, he had spent 5 years at the EU Delegation to Morocco, working on Energy and Institutional Building dossiers. 

This came right after Romania’s accession to the EU, to which he contributed from 2004 to 2007 as member of the EU Delegation in Bucharest, dealing with Regional Development and Cross Border Cooperation.

He graduated in 1996 as Industrial Engineer from the “Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers” in Lille (France), and then spent 2 years as Mathematics’ teacher in a school in the suburbs of Beirut (Lebanon). From 1998 until 2004, he worked as Consultant for a French technological company based in Brussels.