Dr. Renzo Daviddi has been appointed Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He will take up this duty on 15 March 2011.

He arrives at this position after having served for about four years as Head of the European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo. He is not new to Bosnia and Herzegovina having been posted in Sarajevo as the Head of Political and Economic Section of the EC Delegation.

Before joining the European External Action Service, Dr. Daviddi held several positions within the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission.

Dr. Daviddi has an extensive knowledge on the economic and political realities of countries in transition, and most notably of the Western Balkans. He has also a wide-ranging knowledge of Community policies and the functioning of the Union, especially EU enlargement.

His previous academic career (at the European University Institute, at Bocconi University in Milan and European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht) was mostly focused on international economic and financial matters and transition issues. He has published several articles and edited four books on transition economics and EU enlargement matters.

Dr. Daviddi holds a Laurea in Scienze Economiche (Summa cum laude) from the University of Sienna, Italy (1981), a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences (Russian East European Studies and Economics) from the University of Birmingham, UK (1984) and a PhD in Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1988).

The position of Deputy Head of Delegation is a new position in the EU Delegation to BiH established as a part of the EU plan to enhance its engagement with the country.