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Dominique ristori of dg energy on the importance of europe s internal energy market
Dominique Ristori is a French bureaucrat with the European Civil Service of the European Commission. Since January 2014 Ristori is director-general of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission.
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Career
In 1973 Ristori became a Bachelor of Law (Licencié en Droit) and gained a Certificate in International Studies from the University of Nice. In 1975 he became a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris.
Ristori entered the European Civil Service in 1978 when he became Assistant to the Director-General, Assistant to the Director at the Personnel and Administration Directorate-General (DG ADMIN). In 1990 he became Head of Division in charge of Transnational cooperation between SMEs at the Directorate-General for Enterprise Policy (DG ENTR). From May 1996 to December 1999 Ristori was the Director in charge of European Energy Policy at the Directorate-General for Energy (ENER). From January 2000 to July 2006 he was the Director in charge of General Affairs and Resources at the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (TREN). From 2006 to 2010 he was the European Commission's Deputy Director General for Energy and Transport, in charge of nuclear energy policy.
He was the Director General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (December 2010-December 2013).
In January 2014 Ristori was appointed as the director-general of DG Energy, succeeding Phillip Lowe.
