Career
From 1970-2005 he served as a European civil servant as Head of Cabinet for Étienne Davignon (European Union Commission Vice-President 1977-1983), Director for North-South Relations, Pascal Lamy"s (European Union Commissioner for Trade 1999-2002) Head of Cabinet and Deputy Director-General at Directorate General Trade, European Commission. From 2005-2008 Defraigne also established and managed the Brussels-branch of the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI). Pierre Defraigne is also Professor of economics at the Institutes for European Studies (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis and Université Catholique de Louvain) and at the College of Europe, Bruges, and is a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, China.
