Biography
Kristin Schreiber is currently Director in DG GROW (DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME’s) in the European Commission in charge of chemicals as well as the retail, agrifood and health ecosystems and deputy head of TFIS, the task force for vaccine production. From 2015 till 2021 she was Director for SME’, start-up and scale up policy and entrepreneurship and still keeps her strong interest in SME’s. She is a board member of several EU joint undertakings and the European Chemical Agency.
After obtaining the Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (with a special focus on International Relations, Economics and European Law), a Master's degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury and the Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies in European Economics of the College of Europe in Bruges, she worked as a Graduate Lecturer at the University of Kent in Canterbury and a researcher on the Single Market at the Institut für Europäische Politik in Bonn, before joining the European Commission in 1990 where she held a large variety of positions. Kristin was appointed to her current position in 2021, after serving as Director for SME Policy and Director for Governance of the Single Market and International Affairs.
Previously, she was Head of Cabinet of Employment Commissioner Vladimir Špidla, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and member of the Cabinets of Enlargement Commissioner Günter Verheugen and Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert. She also served as Head of Unit for International Affairs in the DG for Employment and Social Affairs and was a member of the Merger Task Force of DG Competition. Kristin speaks German, French, English and Spanish, some Italian and has notions of Czech and Slovak.
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