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Bernard Petit
European Commission
Directorate-General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Deputy Director-General
Belgium
Short biographic note
- Bernard Petit is the Deputy Director General in the Directorate general of Development in the Commission.
- He holds a P h D of the Paris University in European economy, a Diploma of the department of European studies from the University of Paris and is graduated from the School of Business Management.
- M. Petit joined the Commission in 1971 and has always worked in development issues.
- Before becoming Deputy Director General, he was Director of Development policies and before has led several divisions, in particular financing, programming, macroeconomic support, forward planning…
- Beyond his responsibilities for global and sectoral policies, he chairs the Interservice Quality Support Group responsible for coherence and quality of Commission’s country strategy papers for all the regions of the world.
- In addition, Bernard Petit was the head of the task-force negotiating the Cotonou Agreement (1998-2000) and the chief negotiator for the revision of this Agreement (2004-2005).
Links
partners: 
European Commission. Directorate General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations | Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | Department for International Development (DFID), UK | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany | Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France | Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, The Netherlands | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany | InWEnt Capacity - Building International, Germany
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