Anne Houtman
European Commission
EU Commission Representation in Paris
Director
Anne Houtman has been recently named Director for General Policy in DG Energy at the European Commission. She is also currently acting as Head of Unit for Programming, Delivery and Infringements in DG Energy. Between August 2006 and 2010, she was Director for Internal Market and Sustainability in the Directorate General for Energy and Transport, European Commission.
Prior to that, Anne Houtman was Director for General Affairs in the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport. She has also spent two years as a Director in the Directorate-General for the Internal Market and Services.
Between 1999 and 2004, she was Deputy Head of Cabinet in the Office of President Romano Prodi, with responsibilities including the Internal market, Competition policy, Taxation and Customs, Information Society and Research and Development.
She was previously Head of the State Aid Policy Unit, Directorate-General for Competition. After teaching statistics at the New York Polytechnic Institute and heading the Statistical Research Department of Nielsen Marketing, Belgium, she has held various positions in the Commission since 1985, dealing with employments statistics, State aid for research and development and economic studies in competition policy.
She holds a Graduate degree in Mathematics, University of Louvain, Belgium (1969 – 1973) and a PhD in Statistics, Princeton University, New Jersey (1975 – 1981).
