Chairmanship

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process

Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process (Photo Credit: Council of the European Union)
Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process (Photo Credit: Council of the European Union)

Ambassador Erwan Fouéré retired in 2011 from service of the European Union, having joined the European institutions in 1973, as one of the first Irish people to do so.

His career included a number of other “firsts”: he was the first Head of the European Commission Delegations in Mexico (1989-94) and in South Africa (1994-98), and the first person to jointly hold the positions of EU Special Representative and Head of the European Commission Delegation (in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 2005-11).

He also served as Head of the European Commission Delegation in Slovenia (2002-05).

His appointments in Brussels included service as Head of OSCE Section in the Directorate General for External Relations (1998-2002).