Deputy Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen
Deputy Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen
Main responsibilities
- Legislative coordination, thus providing support to the Secretary-General and to the President. In this capacity, he is in charge of the Directorate for Committee Coordination and Legislative Activities (CCLA);
- Assisting and supporting the Secretary-General with central tasks, replacing him when absent, and managing specific tasks upon request.
The Deputy Secretary-General is also the Director-General of DG Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS).
Director-General
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Anders Rasmussen
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Since 1 November 2022, Anders Rasmussen has been Deputy Secretary-General of the European Parliament, responsible, inter alia, for the planning of legislative coordination within the administration of the European Parliament.
The Deputy Secretary-General is also the Director-General of DG Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS), which provides Members of the European Parliament, its parliamentary committees and the European Parliament as a whole with independent, objective and authoritative analysis of, and research on, policy issues relating to the European Union.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General and Director-General, Anders Rasmussen was, since February 2020, Secretary-General of the Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament, having previously worked as its Deputy Secretary-General. Having joined the European Parliament as a parliamentary assistant in 2000, he became a policy adviser on the LIBE committee for the ELDR and subsequently ALDE group (Renew Europe’s predecessors), before heading ALDE’s parliamentary work unit for over a decade. He holds a master's degree in Political Science from Aarhus University, and a master's degree in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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