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Biography

Frank Hoffmeister is Head of the Legal Department at the European External Action Service of the European Union, a position he has held since November 2021. He joined the European Commission in 2001, where he worked first in the Cyprus Unit in DG Enlargement before becoming a member of the Commission Legal Service (external relations and institutional team). From 2010 to 2014 he acted as Deputy Head of Cabinet of the EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht, and as of 2015 he was Head of Unit dealing with anti-dumping at DG Trade. He then joined the European External Action Service as Director of the Legal Department. Mr Hoffmeister holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg (1998) and served as academic assistant at the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law from 1998 until 2001. He teaches EU external relations law at the Free University of Brussels and has written extensively on EU and international law matters. He edited (together with J Wouters, G Debaere and T Ramopoulos) The Law of EU External Relations - Cases, Materials and Commentary on the EU as an International Legal Actor (Oxford, OUP, third edition 2021).