Biographie

 Hervé Delphin (FR) is an EU official, currently Head of Policy Planning and Strategic Foresight at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Prior to this, he worked in the European Commission where he held various positions, notably in Cabinets between 2004 and 2014, as Head of the Cabinet of Kristalina Georgieva, then European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, and earlier on as deputy Head of the Cabinet of Commissioners Louis Michel and Karel de Gucht, Commissioners in charge of development policy and external relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. From 2014 to 2017 he was Head of the Unit in DG ECHO in charge of the EU humanitarian and emergency response in the European Neighbourhood and the Middle East. 

Hervé Delphin is specialised in EU external relations, with experience in EU foreign and security policy, as well as in humanitarian aid, crisis response development cooperation and international global issues. He has travelled extensively in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He holds a double MA of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Political Sciences and Contemporary History and a MA on European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. 

Hervé Delphin currently teaches as visiting Professor at the College of Europe’s Department of International Relations and Diplomatic Studies. In 2014 he was awarded the title of “Knight of the Legion of Honour”, the highest French National Order.