Director General for Internal Market and Services at the EU Commission. He began his career at the Commission in 1978 as an Administrator for Customs Union Service within the Legal and General Affairs Division.
In 1981, he joined the Directorate General for Competition, where, until 1984, he worked as an examiner in individual 'antitrust' cases in the Directorate for Restrictive Practices and Abuses of Dominant Position, before becoming Principal Administrator in the Directorate for Coordination of Individual Cases.
Between 1987 and 1989, he worked as Assistant to the Director General of DG COMP.
After a three-year interlude of working as a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the Commission, where he was responsible for competition policy and financial institutions, Mr Faull returned to DG COMP in 1992, first as Head of Unit IV/D/3 (Transport and Tourism), then, in 1993, as Head of Unit IV/E/1 (Coordination and General Policy, General State Aid Schemes).
In 1995, he was promoted to Director for IV/A (Competition Policy, Coordination, International Affairs and Relations with the other Institutions). In 1999, he became Deputy Director General of DG COMP.
Mr Faull holds a BA in Law and French from the Universities of Sussex and Geneva, and a MA in Law and European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges.
Since 1989, he is Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels. He is furthermore Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge.
He was also Visiting lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris from 1992 to 1995.
Jonathan Faull was born on 20 August 1954 in Chatham, Kent (UK).
