Tassos Haniotis

Tassos Haniotis is Head of the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission. In previous appointments, he served as member and subsequently Deputy Head of the Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler (with respective responsibilities the preparation of the 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the agricultural chapter of the Doha WTO Round and the EU-Mercosur negotiations), and as Agricultural Counsellor of the European Commission’s Delegation in the United States.
 
He holds M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, USA, and a B.A. (1980) in Economics from the Athens School of Economics and Business Science, in his native Greece. He also spent six months as a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London (1988), where he studied EU-US agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations.