Gerard de Graaf
Head of the European Union Office in San Francisco, Senior Tech Envoy to the U.S., European Union Delegation to the U.S.
Senior EU Envoy for Digital and Head of the EU Office in San Francisco, Gerard de Graaf has worked for more than 30 years in the European Commission across a wide range of policy areas. Until his appointment in summer 2022, he was director in DG CNECT, responsible for the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts (DSA/DMA). Before joining DG CNECT, he worked in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, in DG Research and Innovation and in DG Internal Market and he was trade counsellor at the Commission’s Delegation to the United States in Washington DC.
